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- Signcut pro illustrator template for laserpoint cutter how to#
- Signcut pro illustrator template for laserpoint cutter manuals#
- Signcut pro illustrator template for laserpoint cutter Pc#
A4 is the European standard and is a little bigger than Letter.Ģ. Most American paper is Letter, but some is A4. You don't want an A4 workspace with Letter paper or vice versa, so it pays to make sure. Note, A4 paper is not the same as Letter (8.5 x 11) so double check. Be sure your workspace matches your paper size. With contour lines on their own layer, you can hide them anytime while you design. I usually set my contour cut layers to 100% Magenta. Name the layer 'Contour', because later, you can re-use this file as your master file for all future contour-cut work. I usually just scale up my graphic a little bigger than the original, and make sure it's an outline in the Contour layer. The contour lines can be any color vector line, and make them however you see fit. Put all of your art on however many layers you need, but the key here is to add a layer at the top with *only* your contour lines, so we can isolate them, turn them off and save them out by themselves later. Design (or import) your graphics in Corel, Illustrator or some vector-based graphics program. It doesn't matter how many layers you use, but it's good to keep your contour layer on top so you can hide and isolate it for sending over to SignCut.ġ. Note that the contour layer exists on its own layer. Illustrator users, download this sample here. Download and use them to learn the contour-cutting process, or you can make your own in the next section in the tutorial. It's a good idea to write those values down somewhere in case you need them again. You will only need to do this once, and the values are stored in SignCut. You now have set the offset the knife holder has in relation to the laser point.
Signcut pro illustrator template for laserpoint cutter Pc#
Use the arrow keys on your PC numeric keyboard, screen or a USB handheld numeric keypad and move the laserpointer to the center of the crosshair. A crosshair will be printed on the paper. Under Settings/Settings click 'Calibrate Laserpoint Offset'. Put the cutter online if it isn't already. Load the plotter pen into your cutter, and in SignCut, set your offset to 0mm, with 3-point calibration enabled. If the cutter says 'waiting' then you will need to cycle the power so you can set your new origin.
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Put a regular sheet of paper in your cutter, and set home origin in the middle of it. Start with a properly working cutter! For basic setup check the Noobie guide written by Paco. See, he did all the hard work, I am but a scribe who re-wrote the tutorial in a way I understood it better and with a few more tips.
Signcut pro illustrator template for laserpoint cutter manuals#
These are the original manuals here if you want to see them (written by Paco). After learning from him, I did like 50 zillion contour cuts, made a lot of mistakes and learned a lot.
Signcut pro illustrator template for laserpoint cutter how to#
I have to give him all the credit for teaching me how to do it. I am just adding it to this site in my own words to clarify a few things which confused me and to add a few tricks of my own. To start, this is Paco's (user CRD) tutorial from a method he discovered.