Gimp Vinyl Cutter

I have been watching some tutorials about paths and i m getting quite good at manipulating curves and such.

Gimp vinyl cutter.

The knife moves side to side and turns while the vinyl is moved beneath the knife. Prepare the file with the vinyl cutter s bundled program i use roland cutstudio but you can use inkscape or another program. It s free and a must have for all hobbyists. The versaworks software rip software needs an eps file to know what to print.

With inkscape open the image file created in gimp. Cnc laser cutters vinyl cutters plasma waterjet routers they all will read a dxf file. Cutting vinyl letters and shapes. I m using a roland versastudio 20 vinyl printer cutter.

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. An application for controlling 2d plotters cutters engravers and cnc machines. How to take an image file on the desktop and turn it into something that the vinyl cutter will understand. The vinyl cutter uses a small knife to precisely cut the outline of a picture into a sheet or piece of vinyl.

Anytime i buy a new pc the first software i ll install is inkscape and gimp. We bought a jaguariv plotter for cutting clear bra but i was thinking that we could also use it to cut vinyl graphics. But i don t know if i can output to the plotter from gimp. When you have your design all set send it to the vinyl cutter.

That eps file can have very thin hairline lines of a specific color 100 magenta to tell the rip software where to cut. The material is then weeded where the excess parts of the picture are removed. 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.