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  • can anyone help me with exporting cut lines for versaworks?

    Posted by John Wilson on January 24, 2008 at 11:26 pm

    I’ve got a .cdl that I can use in signlab for cutting but I’d like to use it for print and cut……… is there any way to import it into versaworks so that I can use it for cut and print?

    Cheers

    Rod Young replied 16 years, 3 months ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Kevin Flowers

    Member
    January 24, 2008 at 11:56 pm

    John
    export it as an EPS file, will then open in Versaworks. If its worked you will see the red marching ants around the cut line in Versaworks. Ensure you have the EPS margin in VW set,

    Kev

  • John Wilson

    Member
    January 25, 2008 at 12:07 am

    it just puts a cut line box round the whole image and not the actual cut lines from signlab, is there maybe something that I need to do in signlab first?

  • Nick Minall

    Member
    January 25, 2008 at 9:20 am

    Make it the colour Versaworks need it to be or make it a pdf

    Nick.

  • John Wilson

    Member
    January 25, 2008 at 10:09 am

    I still can’t get this… how come the simple things are hard and the hard things are simple 😮

    Been trying for ages to get this working and i’m starting to lose my marbles now 👿

  • Martin Armitage

    Member
    January 25, 2008 at 10:32 am

    Within Coreldraw you need to assign a colour that you have named as cutcontour this will then be recognised as a cut line within Versaworks I would think the process would be the same within Signlab
    Mart

  • John Wilson

    Member
    January 25, 2008 at 10:35 am
    quote martin armitage:

    Within Coreldraw you need to assign a colour that you have named as cutcontour this will then be recognised as a cut line within Versaworks I would think the process would be the same within Signlab
    Mart

    Yeah I’ve got it set up in coreldraw but i can’t get it to work with this image, it just creates a outline round everything and misses out the insides of letters and things like that

  • Rod Young

    Member
    January 25, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    Not sure what version of SignLab you’re using. However, for relatively recent SignLab you can:

    1. Go Options menu >> SignLab Setup >> PostScript Setup.
    2. This will allow you to name the cut paths that you’re exporting to your EPS file.
    3. For the proper name, check user manual for the given RIP.

    Cheers,

    Rod at CADlink

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