Please Help!!!!

Welcome from PA.......................................


There's a Governor Mifflin close to me.... are you anywhere near Reading ??

 

Okay.




You might want to go through some of the old threads and do a search for your particular software as to how it works, but if you want a step by step process, you might try reading some books on layout, basic drawing or design skills and composition.

Your question is very open ended and I'm not sure if you want help on design, layout or how to get your ideas into your software or how to get your printer/cutter to read your files or..... what ??

Usually what works best around here is for you to post up some of your ideas and others will critique them and try to help. No one wants to do your work for you, but will always help if your intentions are true and you're not looking for freebies or handouts.

You're only going to learn if you do things and learn from your mistakes. We've all been at the beginning and have all taken our crossroads and right & left turns and some even back up and try a new approach, but you get there much faster with our helping you, rather than giving you all the information up front.

 

1. Cut the vinyl
2. Weed the vinyl
3. Mask the vinyl with Masking
4. Place the masked vinyl on your window with tape hinging the middle.
5. Fold one half over and peel away release liner (cut away release line)
6. Squeegee or roll masked vinyl onto window using angled strokes
7. Repeat steps 5 & 6 for the second half of the masked vinyl
8. Remove masking, leaving a beautiful vinyl window design

That last part only applies if your design is beautiful to begin with :ROFLMAO:

 

Probably not the best suggestion but you can check out some videos on youtube. Right or wrong they may give you some insite into how others apply their vinyl.

John

 

Welcome from NJ! I thought from the title i was going to have to rush out on some remote highway and rescue you because you were buried in snow or something.

 

Are you not sure how to apply the vinyl, or not sure how to make your program do what you want it to?
Yes, I believe your version of Flexi will make a drop shadow with an outline. It's a matter of rolling up your sleeves and experimenting with your software. Did you get a user manual with it?

Hate to break it to you, but wasting 10 feet of vinyl is just a drop in the bucket. Get ready to do that many many more times. It's all part of the learning.

 

SAi (Flexi folks) have a training DVD for $199. That's probably a good deal if you're new to the software.

I'm not sure if we sell it, but you can check with our sales folks ... if not ask them where you can get it. 800.699.5514 or sales@signwarehouse.com.

Best,

Jim

 

see if some kind person in your area that knows the software would come in as a temp and train you - no matter what you do your in for a long haul

 

The first thing you will want to do is to make sure the window named Design Central is open in your workspace. It is context sensitive and will change and tell you the settings for whatever tool you are using.

As a point of reference, a typical high legibility letter will have a height to width ration of from .75 to .9. What that means is that if you want a strong line of copy that is 8" tall and 36" wide you can calculate how many letters will actually fit before you will end up forcing the line to a more compressed width ... usually spoiling the legibility in the process.

36 / (8 x .9) = 4 letters (rounded down)

So if your line of text came out to 102", I am guessing it has 11 or 12 letters and spaces. If you are willing to force the width of that line, you would enter 36" into the line width in design central and uncheck the "proportional" check box. That will force the letters to 35.29% of their original width which will almost certainly ruin their look. You're basically trying to fit 30 pounds of letters into a 10 pound bag.

Your better option is to set some guidelines for the height and width you plan to fill, forget about firm letter heights and create your layout within it.

 

You can order the FlexiSign Training DVD for $199.00 or you can enroll in Flexi Online Training for $20.00 per month. Here's a link to the site.

 

Does anyone else think this is a joke?

 

•Don't know what weeding is? Did they show you anything. Search youtube for basic stuff. What you are asking is what some pay thousands to learn. If I were you I would hire someone that knows how to make signs and learn from them. Good thing you are using the old way of cut vinyl not doing the digital printing, you would really be lost.

Is this a joke????

 

Doesn't appear to be to me.

 

+1 on hiring - With all the possible $ loss in not knowing how to do signs and screwing up loads of vinyl - an employee would save you $ in the long run