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#Easy cut studio default cut margins install#
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#Easy cut studio default cut margins software#

Click the Cut button and the vinyl cutter will spring to life. There will be a preview of your cut on the right side of this box.

#Easy cut studio default cut margins software#

Use Software Speed and Pressure: UNCHECKED.

To cut your image, go to Cutter > Cut with Graphtec/CraftROBO. You will want to position your graphics near the origin point. The representation is as if you were looking at the vinyl cutter straight on as it cuts. This will set the origin point at the lower right of your project. When creating a new project in SCAL, set your mat orientation to vertical. and ensure your settings match the following:

Select Graphtec under "Company/Brand" and FC for "Model".

Add the device to SCAL by going to Cutter > My Cutter > Manage Cutters.

Hive13 owns a license to Sure Cuts A Lot (SCAL) v5 for the CAD workstation.Īfter you have added the IPP print queue to your computer and installed the drivers, setting up the cutter to use with the Craft Edge programs is relatively easy. Any cutting plotter software that supports Graphtec devices and the GPGL control language should work. Sure Cuts A Lot and Easy Cut Studio are almost identical. On Windows, the Craft Edge programs work great and are what we have documented here. You can import SVG files to this program and cut them out.

#Easy cut studio default cut margins install#

If you're on Linux, add the IPP queue and install InkCut from Code LV. Force of 20 seems like the best average setting. A Force of 14 barely didn't cut all the way through, and 35 ripped the vinyl. WARNING!: When on the ready screen, you can adjust the Force, Speed, Quality, etc. Once you get to the ready screen you can print from your vinyl cutting program. Once it's done calibrating, it will say 'Condition #' and display ready. The pen carriage will now calibrate and sense the cutting distance between the two pinch rollers. Once the media and the pinch rollers are aligned, pull the media bar back into it's default position and press enter. I try to leave about an inch of wiggle room on each side. The distance between the pinch rollers determine how wide of a printing surface you have to work with, so adjust to the edges of the vinyl. Here is where you can release the media set lever and adjust the pinch rollers. The next screen will say 'Press enter key after releasing media lock'. If it's says 'Front Set' press the left or right position button until it displays the 'Rear Set'. select 'Rear Set' (Roll-1 or Roll-2 doesn't matter for this cutter). Once you're ready to cut, turn on the vinyl cutter.

This will render your image so that It can now be cut. Now click the ‘Stroke paint’ tab, and click the blue rectangle (right of the ‘X’). This will cause your image to disappear temporarily. When you are done with that, select your bitmap image and go to ‘Object > Fill and Stroke.’.

5, but may vary depending on what image you are using. The lower the threshold the more detailed the picture. Edge detection seems to be the easiest to use, but play around with settings. With the image selected, go to ‘Path > Trace Bitmap.’. Inkscape can do edge tracing on raster images to convert them to paths.Ĭhoose any image, and open it inside Inkscape. Make sure all your image elements have been converted to paths. You can import any well-formed SVG file into your cutting program.

Adjust the cutting area on the cutter controller so the margins aren't so goddamn huge.

#Easy cut studio default cut margins manual#

Review the manual for the Graphtec FC-7000 Mk2.

Fully document InkCut setup and scaling settings.

Now you're ready to shred some vinyl and if you're really lucky, you'll have a good looking cut to stick on your laptop. The Q60 is a rebranded Graphtec FC-7000, so select that one from the list.

#Easy cut studio default cut margins driver#

Click the "have disk" button and browse to your extracted driver folder. Tell windows it sucks at searching for your printer ("The printer I want isn't listed") and type the URL in the box that appears, as shown to the left.Īt this point you'll be asked for the printer drivers.

#Easy cut studio default cut margins zip file#

Once you have the zip file extracted, you are ready to go to the "add a printer" sequence in Windows. Let it chug for a bit, then you're ready to download the printer driver from the links at the bottom of this page.