gabagoo
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I am running Signlab 8 on win 7 64 bit. It seems to have been running OK now for a month or 2 and today something has happened.
I have no idea what I could have done, but I had a customer here who needed some cut out stencils for etching granite and needed these triangles at a specific size-11.25". So I set up the job and when I clicked on the triangle and selected size from the drop down menu, I then typed in 11.25. When I clicked on the triangle on the screen it indicated it was 11.2", so I went through the same process again and again it said 11.2". I then zoomed into the triangle and grabbed it and manually moved it and it would jump from 11.2" to 11.6" with nothing in between. I dont have snap to grid on so I know it is not that. I then just selected the nodes and moved it until I had the size.
Next I started cutting these 10' lengths of the triangles. ( he needs 21 sets) I realized afdter the first set it never cut any of the bottom lines of any of the triangles. OK I figured I did not have the plotter set up right so I powered it off and back on and reset the material andf again it would not cut the bottoms. Ok I know a trick for this so I made a small rectangular box and made sure it sat below the baseline of the triangles by about a 1/4". This way maybe it wont cut the bottom of the box but it will know the triangles are above the lowest point in the graphic and will cut them. NOPE!!! WTF, not on a Friday afternoon, thank you...
I reboot the computer, reboot the plotter..try again and again failure.
I then tried to use the circle tool in Signlab to make a small circle to put at the bottom of the triangle to see if that would work and after making the circle I viewed it on the screen and it looked like a crumbled cookie!!!
Now I am getting a little concerned that something is not right. I then tried to type out 3" letters using helvetica medium and they viewed like crap...like some horrible home made garbage font.
So what the hell is happening here?
anyone have any idea what could cause this software issue so suddenly?
I have no idea what I could have done, but I had a customer here who needed some cut out stencils for etching granite and needed these triangles at a specific size-11.25". So I set up the job and when I clicked on the triangle and selected size from the drop down menu, I then typed in 11.25. When I clicked on the triangle on the screen it indicated it was 11.2", so I went through the same process again and again it said 11.2". I then zoomed into the triangle and grabbed it and manually moved it and it would jump from 11.2" to 11.6" with nothing in between. I dont have snap to grid on so I know it is not that. I then just selected the nodes and moved it until I had the size.
Next I started cutting these 10' lengths of the triangles. ( he needs 21 sets) I realized afdter the first set it never cut any of the bottom lines of any of the triangles. OK I figured I did not have the plotter set up right so I powered it off and back on and reset the material andf again it would not cut the bottoms. Ok I know a trick for this so I made a small rectangular box and made sure it sat below the baseline of the triangles by about a 1/4". This way maybe it wont cut the bottom of the box but it will know the triangles are above the lowest point in the graphic and will cut them. NOPE!!! WTF, not on a Friday afternoon, thank you...
I reboot the computer, reboot the plotter..try again and again failure.
I then tried to use the circle tool in Signlab to make a small circle to put at the bottom of the triangle to see if that would work and after making the circle I viewed it on the screen and it looked like a crumbled cookie!!!
Now I am getting a little concerned that something is not right. I then tried to type out 3" letters using helvetica medium and they viewed like crap...like some horrible home made garbage font.
So what the hell is happening here?
anyone have any idea what could cause this software issue so suddenly?
I had two beers while commimg up with that answer.
