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Cutting 3m diamond grade on a friction bed plotter
Finally! I have sussed it!
1.) get a 60 degree blade
2.) get a good visible point on your blade holder
3.) set speed to very slow
4.) put vinyl in upside down ( white facing you )
5.) in your program copy and paste the cut file twice, so the blade will cut twice over each letter
6.) work in small areas at a time for accurate registration
7.) send to cut
8.) after cutting, push through letters. Might need a little scalpul work on fancy corners
9.) perfect letter shapesOh btw CUT MIRROR IMAGE lol
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UPDATE:
To avoid track marks on the face of the vinyl, put application tape on the face. I have just tried cutting some large text using this method, and solved the track mark problem
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Hi Robert,
Great tips, gotta do a reflective house sign soon and will try it out.. quick question if you don’t mind, need to make a blue and white reflective, white reflective base, thinking of translucent blue on the top? to reflex the blue white at night..
by the way.. cheers for the reminder for mirroring.. how often have I forgotten that one 🙄 (yeah I’ll admit it LOL).
Dave
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Thats ok but on this material the edges need sealing or they will come apart.
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3M Diamond is a bit overkill for a house sign, why not just use engineering grade as its easier to cut and doesn’t need sealing
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thanks for the tip Martin, didn’t realize that the edges needed to be sealed after plotting, makes sense though with a bit of thought due to the honeycomb structure of the stuff.. any tips on what to seal with for future ref?
The job is for family in France on their gate.. want it to stand out at night and having seen the traffic signs here thought it might be an ideal play with the stuff, but yep you are right Martin, it is a bit of overkill.. may well do the engineering grade suggestion, as have just got some Mac swatches through that look quite good.. 🙂
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ooops sorry, typo on the overkill.. meant to thank Graeme.. 😳
Guess it’s turning into one of those days here.. 🙄
Dave
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Hi
Just saw this..There are other similar to diamond grade, higher grade than engineering which can easily be cut on a ‘normal’ plotter, know that because I am cutting a never ending roll of it at the moment; 🙄 cut the right way up, slow and once with high downforce, then with application paper over it after normal weeding.
John
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