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How's everyone doing? Hope all is well and thanks for checking out my question.
I'm having an issue with my roland GX-24 where curves are not being cut right. For some reason there are, what looks like, tiny waves in the actual curve.
I have changed the blade, blade holder and cutting stripe. The files all seem good as well.
Any ideas why this might be happening? Please help and thank in advance for all responses.
Re: Roland Gx-24 problems (not cutting smooth lines)
set the machine to factory defaults and then make sure your blade is correct for the material you are cutting. as well as blade extension..all have to be correct for it to cut as you want
Re: Roland Gx-24 problems (not cutting smooth lines)
check your file also and see if there are a bunch of extra points in the design. I have seen many stock designs set for cutting that are very far from smooth and need a little editing.
Re: Roland Gx-24 problems (not cutting smooth lines)
Bob is correct, a set of pens would help a lot.. paper is cheaper than vinyl for test runs.
I find it you use the outline object function and then zoom in a lot, you will see a lot of small points that are not smooth curves. I usually have to delete a lot of the small zig-zags and manually smooth out the curves and it cuts a LOT better.
Re: Roland Gx-24 problems (not cutting smooth lines)
I have a roland cutter which used to do the same, I thought the same as you that the machine required a new cutter, this was not the problem what was happening was the cutter blade was not turning, I put a drop of oil on the cutter head and it has never done it since, hope you have the same result
Cheers
Malcolm
Re: Roland Gx-24 problems (not cutting smooth lines)
go into edit mode and delete some of the points. If you are importing the graphic in from Corel or Adobe I would adjust it there fist and then import it in.
Re: Roland Gx-24 problems (not cutting smooth lines)
I'm at work and don't have the help file or software here...
On the top left side of the screen, the top button is the select tool, below it should be a button that changes the design to show the actual points. Press that button, zoom in so you can see the actual points. Click the right mouse button on a point and hit the delete button on your keyboard...
There may be other/faster ways but that should at least get you started.
Re: Roland Gx-24 problems (not cutting smooth lines)
If you are using Corel Draw you will want to click on the second tool on the tool bar. It is the shape tool. Once you do that you will see "nodes" on the design red an blue squares. You can click on a node and hit the delete button on the keyboard to delete.
Knowing what nodes to delete will take some practice. Good thing for that undo button.
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Re: Roland Gx-24 problems (not cutting smooth lines)
Alison and ted, thanks for the tips. Unfortunately ii'm a nofice at this but will try to figure something out. My image is created in AI and i simply import it into Cut Studio. I dont have AI and am not the one who makes them anyway. I will try to attach to this for you guys to get an idea...everything is so awesome, thanks so much . Well, it appears i can't upload the files because they are invalid
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. Well, it appears i can't upload the files because they are invalid 
