can anyone help me cut shape out with number in it?

[Lynn Normington]

Hi Adele two ways:- make your shape eg. circle in a dark colour and make another circle smaller in white on the inside of your first circle centre them up and weld you will be left with an out line, another way is select transform and make an inline in your circle to the required size.

Lynn

[Adele Brennan]

thanks for that…just got no experience with signlab.. Corel draw is my forte.

[Adele Brennan]

it’s not a circle i want 1mm outline of ..it’s the number..can i do the same with that?

[Brian Little]

Adele do your number first of all in a colour you can see…..go to outlines …choose your width of line…..go back to your number put the arrow on it and then change it to white and weld

should be left with just your outline…im better at doing it than telling you how wouldnt get a job writing instructions anyway 😀 😀 😳

[Adele Brennan]

Thanks for that..you have saved me hrs of pulling hair…at last results!!

Can’t believe I’m geared up for printing on Sat nite!!!

TY

[Brian Little]

no the feeling dito got stuff to do tonight in between watching "you could be nancy " 😀 😀 i think its me thats the nancy for watching it 😀 😀

[Adele Brennan]

I’m on night shift…toddler keeping me busy here!!

[Adele Brennan]

Thanks Lynn and Brian

Will let you know how I get on tommorrow.

No doubt will have more questions tommorrow.

Thanks

[Lynn Normington]

Adele no probs let us know the out come 🙄 I am also better at showing than explaining

Lynn

[Brian Little]

no probs Adele ……thats what the site is all about as lynn says it so much easier to do than to explain

Regards Brian

[Adele Brennan]

At last…getting somewhere with Signlab…only trouble now is getting vinyl onto clear acrylic without it bubbling and generally looking rubbish!!

[Phill Fenton]

Try applying it wet – but don’t tell Rob I told you to do it this way 😕

[Andrew Ritchie]

quote Phill:

Try applying it wet – but don’t tell Rob I told you to do it this way 😕

:lol1:

[Adele Brennan]

Excuse my ignorance here…do you mean dip in water wet?

[Glenn Sharp]

Adele…..probably the least messiest way of applying wet is to use a spray bottle (garden centres etc…etc..)

Fill the bottle up and put a couple of drops of washing up liquid in and give it a bit of a shake.

spray the substrate with the soapy water before applying the vinyl making sure you have no dry spots………….using the solution gives you time to reposition the vinyl if needs be…..but the main advantage is that it allows you to sgueegee all the water out leaving it bubble free

[Robert Lambie]

:shake:

DRY…

:lol1:

[Adele Brennan]

Will this not remove stickiness from the vinyl??

[Robert Lambie]

Applying it wet wont remove the adhesive. but you do need to expel the water from below it as much as possible, then allow a long period of time for the water residue to dry out. it is much easier to apply the vinyl using this method but i personally frown upon it, but thats me for you. :lol1:
at the end of the day you have to do what gets the job done and if the only way is wet, then so be it. that said, i would rather pay for rapid-tac 2 application fluid than use soapy water.

[Lynn Normington]

or overlay from cherwell or johnsons baby shampoo 1 ish drops in a litre of water ( and if it goes in your eye it won’t make you cry 😀 ) but dry is the way to go, it’s just patience and practice once you do it, it will also save lot’s of time. 😎

Lynn