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plan b · July 9th, 2008

A couple more things, slow your cutter speed down and if you are cutting small objects enable small object cutting in the software, I really don't like sign cut program but sometimes you have to make do with what you have.

Boro · July 9th, 2008

Its definately 0.30 and the blade is only a couple of days old.

I have just read the instructions again but no mention of any offset adjustment.

However, it did state:-

Q) Why do some characters not close correctly when plotting?

A) Please check blade offset in your cutting programmer.

Should i reduce the offset to 0.25?

Can someone explain what offset is so that i can understand what im doing rather than just doing it.

Thanks again

plan b · July 9th, 2008

Ok if the offset is set to high it will pull up the corners,

offset meaning: offset is the distance the blade travels past each corner, the plotter actually sends this via the value set on either the machine or by software, it works off of the center point of the blade, in other words if its a 45 degree blade imagine a line at 45 degrees up from center point of the blade if it stops short of the centerpoint it will not cut all the way to the corner thus pulling up nipples in the vinyl or not cutting at all, the offset controlls that to cut past to ensure a complete cut.

Hope I didn't loose you

Roger

Boro · July 9th, 2008

It definately makes more sense than it did before, lol.

I will adjust the offset and try again. PS, im running it at 150mm/s

Should i slow it down further?

plan b · July 9th, 2008

yes if you are cutting plain vinyl try 60 cm/s and are you sure its not cm/s and not mm, your offset is in mm and your cut speed is in cm

plan b · July 9th, 2008

one more thing if you are cutting a lot of corners you need to go even slower

Boro · July 9th, 2008

Its definately mm, the max cutting speed is 600mm/s but ive being running 150mm/s

plan b · July 9th, 2008

wow ,ok just slow it down till you get a smooth cut thats going to be a trial and error till you hit that golden speed.

Boro · July 9th, 2008

Off to test it now, thanks for your help. Do some cutters actually cut at 60cm/s, thats about 2 feet!

plan b · July 9th, 2008

Ok after some calculations my machines run on cm/s so that means there is 1 cm = 10 mm so you can actually speed that machine up a tad start at 200 mm and work up until you get a good cut, as 15cm/s is really slow now

plan b · July 9th, 2008

or is it opposite, oh heck I don't know its been a long day

Boro · July 9th, 2008

LOL, thanks for your help. My cutter has just finished another batch, so im off to pull away the excess and see whats left on the page, haha.

Oh, quick question, should it matter if i pull it away slowly or quickly?

plan b · July 9th, 2008

Start at one corner and work diagonally to the opposite corner and it depends on the cut which corner you start at

Boro · July 9th, 2008

Ok, that was alot better, only a couple of letters (the same each time ironically) stuck and they just needed pressing down while peeling away the excess. Still not perfect, so more adjustments needed.

PS, these are just text decals, a name on one line and phone number below, about 3" x 1 1/2".

Someone mentioned changing a setting on SignCut to select something about small text or decal? Would this help and which setting is it?

Sorry for all the questions, but once this is set up, i wont have the worry of wasting anymore vinyl

Thanks in advance.