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Setting cut lines in Illustrator for Roland VersaWorks

rosary0215

rosary0215

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In our business, we mainly use Corel 13, but I would like to have the ability to send jobs from Illustrator to Versaworks (for our Roland SP-540V) with cutlines already on them like you can from Corel. If anyone knows how to do this and can help me, it would be much appreciated.
:thankyou:
 
petepaz

petepaz

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make your cut line
then select it and goto your swatch box then select make new swatch
dbl click and you will get swatch options box rename the swatch:
CutContour both c's must be capital
and you can adjust the color if you want and that's it
you might have to do this each time you do a job it doesn't always save
 
petepaz

petepaz

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sorry forgot a step
you must change the swatch from process to spot color
in the area where you are changing the name to CutContour
 
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Waltnetto

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Got that info and it sends the cut lines and they cut from Illustrator. SO what causes the cuts to repeat -- in other words it cuts each decal twice?
I think I have tried everything, but most of the time each cut is made twice??????

grrrr!
 
Sign Works

Sign Works

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Your contour cut is more than likely applied to multiple paths in your artwork file, double check the file to make sure there isn't more than one path grouped together. I can't imagine why else it would cut twice, they basically only do what they are told to do.
 
threeputt

threeputt

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Also, in VersaWorks be sure in your cutting controls dialog box that you don't inadvertently have "2" checked in the "cut passes" box.
 
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Waltnetto

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Thanks for the guidance. I blew the illustration up to 1600% and there is no second cut line. Then I just drew a box -- followed the procedures "CutPath" etc... sent the box to print and it cut the box twice. I tried as a PDF and and EPS -- same result. You can actually see the marching ants going around the box in both directions? I'm confounded (well actually I'm Waltnetto)
 
ElJay

ElJay

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I realize this is a 4 year old thread but I'm having the same problem...Cut lines created in Illustrator, file ripped with Roland ColorRIP (where it automatically creates the cut file and loads it into a seperate queue), printed on Roland SC-540...After laminating I reload prints into machine, send it to cut and it cuts the file twice...There is only one cut line in the file.
 
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Waltnetto

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After spending weeks trying to figure this out I determined the double cutting was caused by a bug in Illustrator. By saving the file as a pdf with compatibility at 5 (NOT 4), all my double cut problems vanished. Make certain you are setting the cut line up correctly with no fill, .25 stroke and a mitre of 1.
NOW I have to tell you, I'm a Macintosh guy so this fix may not work on a Windows machine.
 
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Meigen

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Waltnetto said:
After spending weeks trying to figure this out I determined the double cutting was caused by a bug in Illustrator. By saving the file as a pdf with compatibility at 5 (NOT 4), all my double cut problems vanished. Make certain you are setting the cut line up correctly with no fill, .25 stroke and a mitre of 1.
NOW I have to tell you, I'm a Macintosh guy so this fix may not work on a Windows machine.
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Waltnetto said:
After spending weeks trying to figure this out I determined the double cutting was caused by a bug in Illustrator. By saving the file as a pdf with compatibility at 5 (NOT 4), all my double cut problems vanished. Make certain you are setting the cut line up correctly with no fill, .25 stroke and a mitre of 1.
NOW I have to tell you, I'm a Macintosh guy so this fix may not work on a Windows machine.
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I've had some success with this by changing the following Illustrator setting after saving as an EPS file:
Select All-Object-Flatten Transparency: Un-check these settings: Convert All Text To Outlines, Convert All Strokes To Outlines, and Clip Complex Regions
 
phototec

phototec

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rosary0215 said:
In our business, we mainly use Corel 13, but I would like to have the ability to send jobs from Illustrator to Versaworks (for our Roland SP-540V) with cutlines already on them like you can from Corel. If anyone knows how to do this and can help me, it would be much appreciated.
:thankyou:
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Here is a video, showing how it done!

 
Gino

Gino

Premium Subscriber
Mona's Lab said:
And now it's 2024 and I just found the solution to my problem in this thread.
So, yeah, haha.
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Just hooray - hooray for 17 year old technology. I'm happy for your ending....................................... haha
 
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