disaster cutting

[Richard Urquhart]

can you not post the file up on the boards and we can have a look at it i know in flexi which i use it you highlight the image it will show where cuts are befor you send to cutter post it up and if i cant help someone will
rich

[Dave Ward]

HI onestop what operating system are you running on your pc is it xp ? if so it could be that you need to set/reset the port the cutter is using.

Dave

[Peter Normington]

When you view the vector without fill or as an outline can you see what you should get?
Peter

[Chris Wool]

coral when importing some ai or eps files will have a spurious line which is a broken loop joined in the wrong place and will do exactly as you describe. also if the plotter is driven via the serial connector the wrong handshaking or poor connection in the cable will also do as described – all from experience of this

Chris

[Dave Ward]

Try this go control panel and the printer folder click on file then choose server properties, click on the port the cutter is using(mines on com 1 serial port) then click configure port, then click flow control and choose xon/off then apply.

Dave

[onestopsigns]

hi thanks for all responces will post it up tommorrow as i left it in shop in disgust lol

i am on windows xp

i am set as x on x off

it is an outline and it does show up as it should do

ive had a few of these a si poiste dbefore and was told to weld which sorted it but its not sorting this one lol

mr sticker sounds like ur veiws might be the right thing how would i solve it
its an ai image which i saved to pc from here in the swaps sections of the dragon made for me with 4 legs
then i impoted to corel 11 then exported to eps for me to import in to artcut

is there any cutters that just cut from ai ? or is that un heard of .

[Gordon Forbes]

No you can cut fron illustrator but you have to make a new pallete colour and name it Contour Cut or some thing like that I got a how to from the Roland site but never needed it as I use signlab which is very good for cutting.

Goop.

[Dave Bruce]

I get this when importing images from other packages. If the separate parts of the image are not overlapping then welding does not solve the problem. You need to move the nodes of one section over the next section then weld, if it is the same colour then you may be left with a small section where the overlap was, remove this and the object then just has the outline to cut.

Hope this helps

Dave

[onestopsigns]

but ok then why does this cut buetifully at 30 cm long yet wont at 1 meter long
sure the same mistakes would be on the smaller as is on the bigger one

[Chris Wool]

there was a drag.ai dragon file on here the other day with 3 dragons in the file the top and middle ones have a loop fault and was caused by 2 nodes to close together – top one buy its eye middle one half way through its tail – why should it cut OK smaller ?.

as i remember the port should be set to hardware control its years since i had a serial plotter this problem will only show up on bigger stuff as the buffer handshakes when its full

Chris

[onestopsigns]

the 3 dragons are the one im talking about except they had 5 legs and a kind gentle man here posted one with 4 legs this is the one ive been useing

the fault was caused near its tail first time and tounge second time

today i cut it a metwer long with flexi sign 7.5 and it cut perfectly
yet in artcut it dont

i need this bigger 1.5 meters to 2 meters long so will play with flex sign tommorrow as ive never used it till today as like artcuts simplicity

as for memory handshakes ect
is this memory in plotter orin pc ? if pc more memory will help yes?