Craft Robo cc330-20 Dashed Lines and Solid Cut Lines not ali

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dquelhas
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Craft Robo cc330-20 Dashed Lines and Solid Cut Lines not ali

Postby dquelhas » Fri Aug 23, 2013 10:46 pm

Hi All,

I'm having problems cutting a very simple popup card with Craft Robo cc330-20.

I've redrawn this http://baudandbui.free.fr/download/cubino.pdf on Inkscape to be able to print it directly to Craft Robo (both SVG and PDF attached).

I go to the printing setting, thee the blue lines to be "Solid Cut Line" and the red and green lines to be "Dashed Line".

These are my printing settings:

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When it starts cutting, the Solid Cut Lines are misaligned on the corners and the Dashed lines are completely misaligned with the Solid Cut Lines!

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Please help!!
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Lazur
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Re: Craft Robo cc330-20 Dashed Lines and Solid Cut Lines not

Postby Lazur » Sun Aug 25, 2013 5:15 am

Hi!

That svg doesn't seem problematic to me, at any offsetting.
All layers have the same translate values.
Maybe the problem is more of robo related?
http://www.graphteccorp.com/craftrobo/support/program/ROBO_Master_Users_Manual.pdf

Some other thoughts:
Why to create dashed lines for paper folding? Is that splitting safe?

On the second image there seems to be another design than the one in the pdf,
like both of those lines are solid cutlines.
At the robo manual, with the auto-traced text there is an example image showing the nodes and the handles of the paths.
They all look closed paths.
Did you try to cut out a circle with one continuous path? Or a square?
If that cuts right a bruteforce method would be to draw each dashed lines from a compound path,
by adding nodes and disconnecting every second segment manually.

I'm not having a vinyl cutter myself nor have any experience with them so I can be totally wrong with these.


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