Check out this pdf. Note there are four scenarios and in each one I provide
(1) Screen shot of how it looks in the Sign Blank area.
(2) What happens when you send it to the Cut window
(3) Where the item actually ends up on the mat.
Note that I was using an A4 Sign Blank, but I only had 8.5 x 11 paper on my mat. Sorry! I'm in Arizona! But hopefully this help!
If you're not getting these exact same results then let's see if we can figure out why! This is important for me to understand for the sake of the user manual you'll be getting in a week!
I tried number 4 and it was all okay until it cut. Mine cut in the top left hand corner (yours screen shots shown botton left, I think) but it was upside down. It was still H a l l o (I cut hallo) but it was face down, you would have had to stick the side you wanted to use face down on the sticky mat)
Was it cutting landscape style and not left to right? Did you have your image in the bottom left corner of your Sign Blank? Do you have Page or Sign Blank checked in the Cut>Plotting Defaults window?
Do you have screen shots or photos on your PC? If so go to Advanced, then click the paper clip on the top row, then browse to your word document of pictures and click upload, then close screen and click post reply. If you have pictures rather than on a word document you may need to make them smaller first.
So you're saying that part of the image gets drawn in a different spot on the mat? That happens when the sign blank is larger than the machine limits. You can change your machine limits under Cut>Plotting Defaults and then Setup. I'm still trying to learn how this works with a CR, myself.
Sandy here are my screen shots of what I did (and my settings in DM) and photos of the actual cut. I drew over the cut in black pen as it was cut in white and didn't cut all the way through (wasn't worried about that)
See, I think that may be the problem. When you pick one of this number 4 scenario, I think the machine limits are causing the problem because the max length and max width are now reversed. Do you see what I mean? This isn't YOUR fault... it's something that CADLink missed when setting the defaults for the Machine Limits.
So, if I want to do landscape A4 then should I extend the machine limits just on the length do you think and by how much? Oh well I can experiment a bit while using the pen.
First try just reversing them and see what happens. You can see in the Preview window that it's trying to work outside the boundaries of the machine limits and it starts tiling. That is precisely the issue here, I'm sure.
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