how do i go about adding a cutline in Corel Draw 12?

[ANDREW S]

I would use the contour tool, allow the blue to bleed your finished size.
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[Alan Drury]

I am not familiar with your set up but normally an outline (not contour) is placed around the item to be cut, this is given a colour and name that the rip recognises. Does your cutter have some kind of OPOS? in this case marks are printed at printime, the job is put into the cutter and the marks are picked up by the OPOS, only the arrow shape needs to be selected and sent to the cutter, no outline or contour is required if the arrows are vector objects anyway. *Note* in Corel Draw – OUTLINE (pen tool from toolbar) is a bitmap line which straddles the actual vector line. CONTOUR (under Effects tab) is a vector outline, in earlier versions of Draw this was made up of hundreds of straight lines but now in X3 is made of Bezier curves.
Alan D

[David Rowland]

sounds like ur subbing the job out?

dont forget bleed…alan is right about layers or different coloured line, I sometime use the coloured method then send the outline to the back of all the shapes so it cant be seen.

Also, do you know how many they can handle at a time?

I would just lay out ur job and expect a small setup fee from the person cutting it, you don’t their style of cutting etc

[Neill Hague]

thanks for the answers guys.
Alan you are right our system does work the way you described, only
With Mistral RIP you need to have the cut lines already in place from the package you laid the job up in (CorelDraw, Photoshop, etc..).
I have imported the design into Corel and coloured it in etc.
I just need to put a cutline around the arrow.

just to let you know info about the job, we supply sets of magnetic arrows to motor dealers so they can point to the accesory fitted to a car with a price. one set consists of 20 arrows, at the moment we cut the arrow shape in vinyl with a 2.5mm inline negatively weed it the apply it to the magnetic.

Out thought was to print them to save time on weeding, etc..