Betreff: Cutting widths question | Name: Devin (drewalt@yahoo.com) | 26.01.2003 19:32:41
I have a graphtec CE2000 (24") cutter with corel/co-cut. Can I cut things wider than the 24" with co-cut and my plotter? Will the softer break up the images and rasterize them to complete the image piece by piece? Any help is appreciated. Thanks
All past answers:
If you have VECTOR graphics that are larger than the physical cutting size of your plotter (such as a plotter that cuts a little than 24") cocut handles these with no problem. You basically have to cut the graphics in SEGMENTS. i.e. u have a 44"x22" graphic, it would cut the 22" part fine, but would have to SEGMENT or split the 44" into 2 pieces (22" each) with a seam down the middle (which u would generally overlap 1/8" due to shrinkage). Segmenting, paneling, tiling... its all the same. also, it doesnt rasterize the vectors, u wouldnt want to do that...the cutter cannot cut raster images..they have to be vectorized first. RASTER/VECTOR....not the same. RASTER is based upon PIXELS (such as paint programs such as Photoshop...VECTORS are based upon mathmatical descriptions of curves and lines such as programs such as Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW, and then these same objects are sent to cocut (which understands them) and then ultimately to the cutter which also understands vectors...then the cutters head bascially follows these PATHS.
