Hey folks I am using VinylExpress R series 2 vinyl cutter and cutting with Inkscape. I have made many items with this unit and it works great with inkscape. However I recently was asked to make a very large sign. The sign was drawn in Autocad and I am able to break up the sign into parts and import those parts into Inkscape for adjustment and cutting. However I am finding that the parts are not coming out the correct size. For instance there is an arrow like point on one side and I decided to do a test cut with that point and measure the vinyl cut part and compare it to the CAD drawing. It is coming out larger by about an eighth of an inch. I have tried to adjust the doccument settings and scale it but it does not seem to change the part size. What am I doing wrong? What settings should I look at to get the cut parts to be the same exact size as the CAD drawings? I noticed there is a dialog box on import that has various settings in it but I typically never change those. Any ideas or suggestions? Also I have often had to fight with the directional orientation of the parts in the plot extension dialog where I think the part will be oriented one way and the part wind out coming out in a different direction
Hey folks I am using VinylExpress R series 2 vinyl cutter and cutting with Inkscape. I have made many items with this unit and it works great with inkscape. However I recently was asked to make a very large sign. The sign was drawn in Autocad and I am able to break up the sign into parts and import those parts into Inkscape for adjustment and cutting. However I am finding that the parts are not coming out the correct size. For instance there is an arrow like point on one side and I decided to do a test cut with that point and measure the vinyl cut part and compare it to the CAD drawing. It is coming out larger by about an eighth of an inch. I have tried to adjust the doccument settings and scale it but it does not seem to change the part size. What am I doing wrong? What settings should I look at to get the cut parts to be the same exact size as the CAD drawings? I noticed there is a dialog box on import that has various settings in it but I typically never change those. Any ideas or suggestions? Also I have often had to fight with the directional orientation of the parts in the plot extension dialog where I think the part will be oriented one way and the part wind out coming out in a different direction