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Cutting master Pro & Illustrator, help needed?
Hello.
I have a graphtec ce5000-60 plotter.
Using Adobe Illustrator 10 CS5 & Cutting master pro 2.
VERY new to cutting master pro 2 and I can’t seem to import my ‘jobs’ onto it.
Tried a tester in AI and saved it as normal, the job just wont import!!??!
Can anyone help?
Need to get a sign fitted tomorrow morning (sunday) as its the only time the high street is quiet enough to get it done.
Any help would be grand!
Thanks in advance…
Bob
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The only thing I can think of is to try saving your file as an older version of illustrator and see if you can import that.
If you have graduated fills in your design these might cause a problem as you obviously can’t cut this. Likewise, rendered images are uncuttable.
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in corel cutting master is launched from the corel work screen and takes the the selected vectors in to the CM screen ready for cutting ??.
expect illy to work similar but then again its a adobe product so possibly has a silly name and procedure.
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I have managed to get cutting master & Illy to work sound!
Main problem now is these blummin cats!!! (See pictures)
I need Illy to go around the outline of the cat so it can be cut out (also eyes need removing)
Problem is when I send this job to the plotter it ends up being cut out like example ‘cat 1’ instead of how Id like it to be cut out example ‘cat 2’
Could anyone possibly help out? Everything else is ready for this sign to be fitted now!
Thanks again!!!!
Bob
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This is one example of artwork not being ready to cut even though you have it as a vector. What you need to do know is edit it to get it the way you want All part of the job Bob, I don’t use illustrator so don’t know what the tools you need to use are called or how illustrator deals with welding/combining or grouping objects.
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Bob
Have you looked at any tutorials on the internet. You can find the answers there quite quicklyPeter
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Cutting Master has a very useful ‘automatic weld’ option, click that on and anything the same colour will weld at cut time but remain individual objects in the generating programme. I use Corel but I would expect Illustrator’s version to have this option too.
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While it is probably too late by now, in future:
What you want is to select it all, hit ctrl-shift-G (ungroup) enough times to have all components separate, select it all again (click&drag across), HOLD SHIFT WHILE YOU CLICK TO UN-SELECT: eyes, pupils and mouth, IE ELEMENTS THAT NEED TO BE CUT/WEEDED then click UNITE in PATHFINDER panel to weld all other components and done. If you cock it up you can hit ctrl-z at any time to undo.I hope it all made sense? 🙂
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Oh, I didn’t swear… I just wrote:
ROOSTER.
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To be clear, my post refers to an option in cutting Master NOT Corel.
Alan D
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