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Chinese cutter and Cut Studio 1.28
I have a 620 wide Chinese Katana cutter (also known as a rabbit and others) and have Roland cutstudio 1.28.
I have got it to cut ok but it does not quite finish the cut and leaves a very tiny piece uncut between start and finish around each letter.
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7 Replies
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I would imagine that the Roland software which is for Roland plotters might be the problem. Also sounds like a blade offset problem. Do the letters look shaped ok?
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Yes they are cut perfectly.
Except when I do small 3mm high letters then they lose the correct profiles and Sharp corners get rounded.
Are you suggesting I should try a different blade with less offset? -
3mm high letters? wow! i wouldn’t even try to cut them.
blade offset is the amount of over-run you put into the blade carrier to compensate for the fact that the tip of the blade (the cutting edge) is behind the centre of the blade, on my blades the offset is .48mm, other blades i’ve used have been only .3mm, it varies but is adjusted via a setting in the cutter / control software, not the cutting software.
Hugh
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3mm letters with a chinese rabbit cutter :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
and they are not perfect? :lol1: :lol1:sorry mate, couldn’t resist.
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Well you may well laugh but when used with artcut software they can cut that small perfectly.
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Sounds like a blade offset problem ( probably THE single most common problem encountered when setting up a Chinese cutter)
Most blades have an offset of 0.25mm…..it will be marked on the container the blades came in.
most Chinese cutters do not have the facility to adjust this in the cutter control software ( one of the areas a cost saving is made) so it HAS to be done in the cutting software.
john
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Except when I do small 3mm high letters then they lose the correct profiles and Sharp corners get rounded
This is always going to be a problem for you because of the way the plotters work. On a more expensive machine they have something called a Tangential cutting mode which is designed especially for small text and intricate graphics.
Although I can cut very small text perfectly I don’t usually bother though because of the time it takes to weed it properly. Actually can’t remember the last time I was asked for something that small.
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