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Roland Camm-1 Servo GX-24 cutting problems
Hello,
I cut a few pieces of text last night (converted to curves) and it all looked like it had cut correctly, until I came to weed it when I found that in two instances of the same word at the same place the cutting had simply stopped half way through a letter. It also did the same thing when I tried to re-cut the whole lot again, but not when I re-drew the text in another window and cut it from there. I am using CorelDraw X3.
Has anyone else encountered such a problem and does anyone have any suggestions.
Many thanks,
Oliver.
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8 Replies
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Oliver are you cutting direct from Corel Draw using a roland driver?
Are you setting outline at .01 ?
Tim.
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quote Tim Painter:Oliver are you cutting direct from Corel Draw using a roland driver?Are you setting outline at .01 ?
Tim.
Hello Tim,
Thanks for your reply. I am cutting direct from Corel Draw. However I wasn’t setting the outline to .01. How does this affect how the machine cuts the line? I was under the impression that converting the text to curves was good enough…
Do you convert the text to curves and then set the outline to .01 or do you leave the text as text and set the outline?
Many thanks,
Oliver. -
I just leave it as text and set the outline……cuts fine.
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I’m sure I had the same problem before & it was just down to a blank text box being created and left on the design
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As a quick check convert your text to curves, set the fill as clear and the outline as black at 0.001mm – now zoom out and select everything, and click the outline as black again.
If there are any other things on the graphic that shouldnt be there you will be able to see them.
Also, check your artwork where the cutter is stopping and make sure that all the outline is there and there isnt a gap with part of the outline missing.
The cutter can only cut where it can see there is a line, if there is any parts of the outline missing, then it wont cut.
One thing Corel does do sometimes with text is even if there is a break in it, it will still fill in the letter with colour, so until you get rid of the infill and look at the outline you wont be able to tell if there is some part missing.
If this doesnt solve it, post the file up here and I’ll have a look at it and see if there is a reason it isnt working.
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Hello,
Thank you all for your advice. I did as suggested set the outline to .01 removed the fill from the text, checked that all the lines were there on screen and that there were no breaks in the lines, hit the cut button and hey presto, it worked!!!!
Fantastic, no more wasted vinyl!
Thanks again for all your help.
Oliver. :o)
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I always use hairline instead of 0.1, in Corel X4 it seems to default to 0.2 width, and it drives me F~~~**&*^ nuts
when I forget to set it to hairline.
Circles cut in 4 sections and boxes cut twice etc.
I dont know of a default hairline setting does anyone else?
it was in X3 -
steve
with nothing selected set the nib width you will see what i meanchris
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