User:Reyninho/FabLab-Reykjavik/Vinyle-cutting

Vinyl cutting

Vinyle cutting machine takes into acount vector to cut. In the FabLab Reykjavik the machine used is a Roland-GX24 and we use the opensource software called Inkscape to edit our projects.

Editing a project

1. Open Inkscape and draw what you want. You can also import a picture frome your computer and converte it into vectors or draw above it.
2. Your drawing done, clik on edit fill and stroke.
3. You do not have fill by cliking on the cross.
4. You do have a stroke that must me full red (255,0,0)
5. Change the thikness of the stroke to 0,02mm.

The vinyle cutting machine takes into account these settings only thaht why it's very important to check if they are ok.

1. Then ou can change the propertie documents in order to fit the page to the objects you've drawn just befor with a small margine
2. Exporte to PDF file with the resolution you want and the extra-space settings you want.

Cutting

1. Above all turn on the machine
2. Open your PDF file
3. Check the Vinyle you take is large enought regarding to your drawing
4. Put your Vinyle into the machine. You must check:

• The Vinyle is lenght enought to cover the lens.
• The two little wheels allow the vinyle to move, so check that they stay on all the lenght of your vinyle piece or roll. Moreoverver, each wheels must be on the white lines.