Gimp Vinyl Cutter

But i don t know if i can output to the plotter from gimp.

Gimp vinyl cutter.

The vinyl cutter uses a small knife to precisely cut the outline of a picture into a sheet or piece of vinyl. We bought a jaguariv plotter for cutting clear bra but i was thinking that we could also use it to cut vinyl graphics. With inkscape open the image file created in gimp. An application for controlling 2d plotters cutters engravers and cnc machines.

Prepare the file with the vinyl cutter s bundled program i use roland cutstudio but you can use inkscape or another program. Cutting vinyl letters and shapes. The knife moves side to side and turns while the vinyl is moved beneath the knife. For some images you may need to do some editing first by using the path tools cut away any part of image you don t want then using selection as path then select invert then edit cut.

It s free and a must have for all hobbyists. Add a box around the image leaving at least 2 3 of margin around all sides of your image so that the ink won t seep around the edges. The versaworks software rip software needs an eps file to know what to print. Click on image layer you want as the shape then layer add to selection then click on image layer you want cut then edit cut.

Anytime i buy a new pc the first software i ll install is inkscape and gimp. That eps file can have very thin hairline lines of a specific color 100 magenta to tell the rip software where to cut. When you have your design all set send it to the vinyl cutter. Cnc laser cutters vinyl cutters plasma waterjet routers they all will read a dxf file.

To create my vector file i used inkscape. I have been watching some tutorials about paths and i m getting quite good at manipulating curves and such. The material is then weeded where the excess parts of the picture are removed.