Hi all, have a small project im doing for a friend that needs some HTV vinyl cut out to be heat pressed on to some frabric. Wondering If anyone has any experience doint this at the maker space. I have done it previously but with a different set up.
Let me know
Cheers - Jack
We have a vinyl cutter in the textile area
Had a go today but couldnt get it working, was trying to send a file from Sure Cuts Alot program but couldnt get it to recognize the cutter plugged in from USB. anyone had any luck with this recently?
I’ve found the usb socket on the cutter to be really temperamental. I used it successfully before Christmas but I had to be holding onto the wire, applying slight pressure to push the usb plug into the socket the whole time. Otherwise things would disconnect and I’d have to start over. So I think it’s just the usb that’s a bit dodgy.
This was connecting my laptop to it directly, not using the pi zero that’s embedded in it
Ahh I will have to give that a go, May I ask what program you were using to send the files over? I had been struggling on my mac and then tried switching over to one of the laptops and downloading SCAL program. At my old job they had a graphtec that could just export from an illustrator plugin so wasnt aware of these smaller cutter plotter programs… cheers
I used Inkscape to generate the hpgl file and then sent these over the serial port that showed up when connecting the USB. Eg. something like:
cat test.hpgl > /dev/cu.usbserial-110