[Leg cramps]

I just got my groove e with studio software and figured this would be a great thread to start.I have many questions and figured the rest of you studio heads could go to one thread to ask and answer these type of questions.please try to keep it on topic.

 

[Leg cramps]

Ok so here I have added text in black,I then made a cirlce 3.5mm for my ss10 stone and fit to path.as you can see the stones go along the border.can I cut the black out of vinyl and press on shirt then press rhinestones half on half off?if not, how do you make the rhinestones outside of the text completly?

 

[SandyMcC]

From what the pro's have posted here, you want the stones to be pressed to the shirt, not to the vinyl. So, what you can do is start with the text you want to cut from the iron-on transfer material. And then perform a Transform>Outline on that vector pattern to produce an outline that is a little over half the diameter of your stones... try 1.8mm. Then use that for creating your circle pattern.

 

[Leg cramps]

ok so heres what I did,
I made my text,this is when I would cut my vinyl.then I selected and made path.Then I selected transform>outline.Then make sure only outline box is checked and make outline thickness to at least half of your stone size.this will now increase your font size by that much (picture 1).now select all and make path again,this will merge your outlie to your font,otherwise when you fit object(rhinestone)to path it will go on both sides of the outline you just made(picture 2).here is the end result.(picture 3)you will see that the rhinestone now goes just to the inside of that outline which is where the start of my vinyl is.thats why I say at least half the thickness.I did mine at 1.8 but im thinking mabey 2.0 to make them even a lil farther away from vinyl.then I deleted black outline whick left just the rhinestone outline.this is where i would cut my template.

 

[Leg cramps]

ok so I took my rhinestone outline then added back in my vinyl to show you finished result.

 

[SandyMcC]

Okay... that looks good. Note that since your circles are larger than your actual stones (so that they fall into the holes more easily), any of the "almost overlap" you're seeing won't actually be there.

You're blowing my mind with how fast you're learning all of this, Eric! You've had your Groove-e like what... four days now?

 

[Serenity10]

Wow Eric,

I'm ordering the DAS system tomorrow. I hope I learn so fast!

 

[Leg cramps]

Ok I thought I had set my stone size at 3.5 but for some reason when I click on them its telling me 3.48.I know its such a small amount but how do I change them all to 3.5 without manually going each one? there are three colors on a black background.see picture.

 

[mfatty500]

Wow Eric,

I'm ordering the DAS system tomorrow. I hope I learn so fast!

Why not the ACS from Sandy?

 

[mfatty500]

Okay... that looks good. Note that since your circles are larger than your actual stones (so that they fall into the holes more easily), any of the "almost overlap" you're seeing won't actually be there.

You're blowing my mind with how fast you're learning all of this, Eric! You've had your Groove-e like what... four days now?

That guy's making me look bad!

 

[BlingItOn]

Ok I thought I had set my stone size at 3.5 but for some reason when I click on them its telling me 3.48.I know its such a small amount but how do I change them all to 3.5 without manually going each one? there are three colors on a black background.see picture.

Is the whole design made with a 3.48 circle? If so then select the whole design and make your whole design a tad bit larger by adjusting it from the corner. This will equally change the size of each circle that has been selected but it will also make your entire design larger or smaller depending on which way you adjust it. In your case the size change won't be that noticeable. Once you make the adjustment select a circle in the design and check the size. Sometimes it takes a few tries but I eventually get it to the size I need.

 

[Leg cramps]

That did the trick,I just took one corner and stretched just a lil and checked and it was right at 3.5!nice...thanks!

 

[SandyMcC]

You could also have selected your entire design and then, up on the Smart Bar, entered 100.57% for the proportional resizing (which is 3.5 / 3.48 x 100%).

 

[Leg cramps]

Today I am going to get my cutter set up and cut a template or two.
So here is where im at.
I took my matt outside and spray taked it.brought it back in and put it on the cutter.then I added paper for my wheels.then pushed the clips down and locked the wheels in.I put the pen tool in the holder and adjusted the settings.I then set my origin.I then did a test and it drew the circle gasket.Im thinking ok this is going so far so good,Im going to open my bills logo and draw that with the pen.This design is 3 colors,blue,red,and green for the decal cut.I selected the blue and hit cut,it brought the blue to the cut window vertically and to the right.i selected pen as my tool,Im thinking great here we go.I hit the cut button and I get a com port error,recieve framing error-check baud or stop bits.I then went into the cut>plotting defaults>setup>port and it is set up the way it is suppose to be @57600,so im assuming it is the stop bits.I went to the index in the back of the manual and didnt see stop bits listed.I then just hit the retry button 3 times and a cutting box came up and said cutting to com4 sending bytes and then finished and went away,im like hey mabey its going to cut after all.But it didnt...just sat here idle.lol any ideas?

 

[SandyMcC]

That message is a false one that started after our machines were made 64 bit compatible. You can just click on Ignore and the machine will start cutting just fine. It only happens on the first cut after you turn on the Groove-E and won't occur after that.

 

[Leg cramps]

hmm,I did click retry a few times and it sent file to cutter but never cut.

 

[SandyMcC]

Did you change the Baud Rate on the cutter itself to 57600? It's on page 8, Step 4.

 

[discoqueen]

You may have checked this already........

You mentioned that it was set to COM4. See if you can change that to COM1 (unless you really do have something else occupying COM1) and send the file again.

I did this exact thing when we got our cutter and almost pulled my hair out trying to figure out why it wouldn't cut. My husband walks in and says "Did you change it to COM1?"

 

[SandyMcC]

On our cutters, it can only be set to Com 1, IF Com 1 is what Windows assigned inside Device Manager. I'm pretty sure that Eric would have already looked up the Com port assignment but that is another thing to verify.

 

[Leg cramps]

no I didnt change it to com 1,In the manual it says to go to controlpanel>system>hardware>ports...find the number after port(which is 4) then go to knk software and go to cut>plotting defualts>setup>port and choose which comm matches(com4) and thats what I did.ok so i went back to this and choose port one and clicked cut and it says error opening port -port not available.