Gimp To Vinyl Cutter

Cnc laser cutters vinyl cutters plasma waterjet routers they all will read a dxf file.

Gimp to vinyl cutter.

Prepare the file with the vinyl cutter s bundled program i use roland cutstudio but you can use inkscape or another program. I have been watching some tutorials about paths and i m getting quite good at manipulating curves and such. It s free and a must have for all hobbyists. I m using a roland versastudio 20 vinyl printer cutter.

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. That eps file can have very thin hairline lines of a specific color 100 magenta to tell the rip software where to cut. But i don t know if i can output to the plotter from gimp. The material is then weeded where the excess parts of the picture are removed.

We bought a jaguariv plotter for cutting clear bra but i was thinking that we could also use it to cut vinyl graphics. The vinyl cutter uses a small knife to precisely cut the outline of a picture into a sheet or piece of vinyl. 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. 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.

To create my vector file i used inkscape. What results from the cut process is an image cut into the material. When you have your design all set send it to the vinyl cutter. Feb 26 2013 how to use gimp and inkscape to make vinyl svg files.

With inkscape open the image file created in gimp. Cutting vinyl letters and shapes. The versaworks software rip software needs an eps file to know what to print.