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Cost effective software for Graphtec vinyl cutter
I’ve been using cutting master ever since I first bought a graphtec, I design in Illustrator and use the plug in to send to the cutter.
The last update of illustrator has broken the cutting master 3 plugin and I personally think Cutting Master 4 is a pile of ****. It seems that If I want to send another file to cut, the option is greyed out and I have to close it to send again.
As there is no upgrade for Cutting master 3 and I doubt there will be, what other software can I use? I don’t really want a design package as I’m used to Illustrator.
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Hi, Bit of a long shot but years ago I had a Silhouette Cameo which is a toy cutter. The silhouette studio software that came with it was rubbish but I was able to lay the stuff out in illustrator, export as an .svg file, then load it into silhouette studio. Not ideal but worked perfect. Not sure if that software is compatible with your machine but its free so worth atry perhaps.
Davy
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i used to use flexi starter with cs2 before i went with cs4 and the plugin. I used it purely for cutting, exported the ai to a different format (cant remember what now, maybe eps) opened and cut in flexi. Maybe worth a look at the newer versions. It was only about 60 quid.
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There is a straight forward Windows driver which will cut any vector with a black hairline it’s on the web site. Can’t stand cutting master.
I use all the time with coral haven’t got a clue about Macs and illyfustrator -
What driver is that Chris? Maybe I can find one for the mac
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http://www.graphtecamerica.com/cp-downloads
As I say don’t know a thing about Macs don’t want to either -
I went all the way back to cutting master #2, because #3 was rubbish.
It does all the same things but without those annoying drop down menus on a stupid time delay. -
Did it work with cc 2018?
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Second cutting master 2 we reverted back to this as well! If you subscribe to adobe creative cloud you can download an older copy of illustrator this will work with. That’s what we did….
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I would never consider anything but Signlab for my day to day sign work.
Signlab comes in moduals, so you purchase a basic cut package, or bolt on the design extras as you go along.
I forget how long exactly, but i must have been using it 20 years now… before that it was a Spandex 4b cutter which had its own internal software to operate it. I used that for about 8 years…
anyway, i have looked at software over the years, because one of our lads would download the trials if it was being praised on this site by others, but in my eyes, they have never came close to ease of use.
For me, i want to design, click cut and it just does it. all the saving files in different formats, import, export etc i just cant be bothered with it and it makes your filing system messy.Anyway, everyone to their own i guess. just my opinion of course. :smiles:
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