Cutter plugin for Illustrator? - General Cutter topics

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Cutter plugin for Illustrator?

Posted by Ray on May 9, 2004 at 12:24 pm

Hi Guys,

I love Illustrator 10 and the more I use it the more it endears itself to me. Trouble is it has no way of talking to my cutter (GCC Puma). Instead I have to export to the ckunky Signpal Apprentice software that came with the cutter. This works, but it is tedious.

What I need is a plugin or something for Illustrator 10 that means that I can cut directly. (Even without a specific driver I can use HPGL.)

So can someone point me in the right direction for an Illustrator 10 cutter plugin?

Thanks

Ray

Chris Wool replied 20 years ago 6 Members · 14 Replies
14 Replies

Bill Dewison

Member
May 9, 2004 at 12:47 pm

Graphtec supply a diddy program for cutting from Illustrator, I’ll look it up 😀

Cheers, Dewi
Bill Dewison

Member
May 9, 2004 at 12:50 pm

Its called the Graphtec Cutting Master v3.0 for Adobe Illustrator. Unsure whether it would work with your plotter, but I should imagine its available at the Graphtex website, http://www.graphtecgb.com

Cheers, Dewi
Ray

Member
May 9, 2004 at 1:02 pm

Hi Dewi,

I looked at the site and its no good, all you can download is an upgrade which won’t install unless you have the original plugin which comes with a Graphtec cutter – which I don’t have. Do you have a copy you can mail me to see if it works – it might if it has HPGL output. I don’t know if GCC Pumas are compatible with Graphtec.

Ray
Bill Dewison

Member
May 9, 2004 at 2:04 pm

Its at the shop Ray, I’ll send it over in the morning. Want to PM me your email details? 😀

Cheers, Dewi
Liam Caulfield

Member
May 9, 2004 at 7:14 pm

I use a plug-in for Illustrator, well I use it in Freehand but its meant for Illustrator. Try this.

http://www.magisign.com/US/dwld/dwld.html

I use the freebie basic one, its splendid.
Ray

Member
May 9, 2004 at 9:38 pm

Liam, I don’t see a windows version, just Mac….

Ray
Liam Caulfield

Member
May 10, 2004 at 8:55 am

I could be wrong ( 😀 ) but I was thinking that most plug-ins are cross platform. All it takes is for Illustrator to recognise it. Actually as I write this it sounds wrong.
Steve Maple

Member
May 10, 2004 at 3:00 pm

the freeware only works with up to mac os9.1
Liam Caulfield

Member
May 10, 2004 at 3:30 pm

So it does, I remember I had to dig out my old Mac in order to use it. Not that Im tight or nuffink 😉
Chris Wool

Member
May 10, 2004 at 3:52 pm

ok so whats the difference between a plug in and a printer driver
confused of saltash (?)
chris
Alan Drury

Member
May 10, 2004 at 4:25 pm

I always think of a plug in as something that puts a function/s within the base programme and a printer driver you just print to a cutting device as opposed to a printer.
Alan
Chris Wool

Member
May 10, 2004 at 4:45 pm

thank you for that so i presume that there is no windows driver for the plotter they are talking about which would do whot they require.
chris
Alan Drury

Member
May 10, 2004 at 7:41 pm

I’ve just been to the Graphtec site and under support there are loads of Windows drivers for various Graphtec plotter models and os, is the GCC Puma a Graphtec compatible model though?
Alan
Chris Wool

Member
May 10, 2004 at 8:23 pm

This was lifted from the site below

Windows Driver
Puma II includes a Windows driver that allows sign makers to edit signs from CorelDraw and output directly to Puma II. It is very simple and easy to make signs with Puma II.

http://www.teksys.com.au/products/pumaII/?C1=9&C2=24
although the language is HPGL every type of plotter has a different set up string before the plot info – i did not find a puma support site
chris