Roland Vinyl Cutter
Roland CAMM1 Servo GS-24 Desktop Vinyl Cutter
Roland CAMM1 Servo GS-24 Desktop Vinyl Cutter
transform your drawing into a stencil, a sticker, a decal
with this video guide using Adobe Illustrator + Cut Studio + Vinyl Cutter
This
machine is a swift cutter for cutting vinyl and other materials.
Think of it as a programmable exacto knife that cuts materials that are attached to a removeable backing - such as vinyl. If the material that you want to cut does not have a removeable backing use an adhesive cutting mat designed for the vinyl cutter to avoid cutting into the machine itself. This adhesive cutting mat will hold the material while the blade cuts through it and is easily removed after it is cut.
Some examples of materials you can cut:
- adhesive vinyl
- mylar
- vellum
- lighting gels
- thin copper foil for making your own circuit boards
- adhesive vinyl
- mylar
- vellum
- lighting gels
- thin copper foil for making your own circuit boards
Runs on Roland Cut Studio design software
Export a vector traced image straight from Adobe Illustrator. Using an ai file
has the advantage of letting you size and place your image in the
Illustrator program, preparing it to cut exactly as you want without
needing to learn the ins and outs of a new program. A plugin exports
your AI file exactly as-is to the Cut Studio program.
Use this quick start guide to making the Roland Vinyl Cutter talk with Cut Studio and your ai file.Vinyl Cutter + Cut Studio + Illustrator. Timo Hidalgo composed this elegantly simple guide as part of the freshman seminar collaborative installation MNXnatives project
Cutting with the Roland
-Make a high res (at least 300 dpi) file in photoshop or illustrator. Dimensions should be the size you want the cutter to cut. Remember that even though most of the vinyl in the eStudio is 24' wide, the cutter will only cut about 23.5" wide! Be judicious with your spacing so you maximize material.
-Remember that the cutter must follow a path that completes itself so make sure that each line is complete or you have a shape/letter/etc that is a fill (Black and White works best, so do fills)
-Save it as a .jpg
-Open Roland Cut Studio
-Go to the Import Button at the top navbar
-Find and import your file
-Position your image to be cut on the blank template provided in the Cut studio software by clicking and dragging.
-You can also shift-drag at a corner to resize your image
-Now you must "trace" or "outline" your image where the cutter will cut. Do this by going to the menu, then clicking "image outline"
-You can play with the darkness/lightness slider to get different results. hit ok.
-Now make sure your material is properly loaded in the cutter. Depending on what it is, you may have to adjust the "pen pressure" or the "gsm force" For adhesive backed vinyl, the pen force should be around 0 or -.5 and the gsm force should be about 90.
-Be sure to double check these settings for each time you get on the machine! Otherwise you may ruin your material and/or the cutter blade, no bueno for us.
-if you are not sure then do a quick test. Load your material, position it using the arrow buttons so that it is mostly left justified in the printer (it does NOT have to be ALL the way left justified and strive to make it straight in there). Press and hold the "TEST" button. The cutter will cut a small circle with a square in it. Check to see how accurately it did this and adjust until you get a satisfactory cut.
-Once the setting are correct, press CUTTING at the top and click ok - the printer will start righty away.
-If something seems to be going wrong, press "pause" at the top of the cutter button panel. If you then press "enter" the cutting will stop altogether and you can readjust and try again.
-Make a high res (at least 300 dpi) file in photoshop or illustrator. Dimensions should be the size you want the cutter to cut. Remember that even though most of the vinyl in the eStudio is 24' wide, the cutter will only cut about 23.5" wide! Be judicious with your spacing so you maximize material.
-Remember that the cutter must follow a path that completes itself so make sure that each line is complete or you have a shape/letter/etc that is a fill (Black and White works best, so do fills)
-Save it as a .jpg
-Open Roland Cut Studio
-Go to the Import Button at the top navbar
-Find and import your file
-Position your image to be cut on the blank template provided in the Cut studio software by clicking and dragging.
-You can also shift-drag at a corner to resize your image
-Now you must "trace" or "outline" your image where the cutter will cut. Do this by going to the menu, then clicking "image outline"
-You can play with the darkness/lightness slider to get different results. hit ok.
-Now make sure your material is properly loaded in the cutter. Depending on what it is, you may have to adjust the "pen pressure" or the "gsm force" For adhesive backed vinyl, the pen force should be around 0 or -.5 and the gsm force should be about 90.
-Be sure to double check these settings for each time you get on the machine! Otherwise you may ruin your material and/or the cutter blade, no bueno for us.
-if you are not sure then do a quick test. Load your material, position it using the arrow buttons so that it is mostly left justified in the printer (it does NOT have to be ALL the way left justified and strive to make it straight in there). Press and hold the "TEST" button. The cutter will cut a small circle with a square in it. Check to see how accurately it did this and adjust until you get a satisfactory cut.
-Once the setting are correct, press CUTTING at the top and click ok - the printer will start righty away.
-If something seems to be going wrong, press "pause" at the top of the cutter button panel. If you then press "enter" the cutting will stop altogether and you can readjust and try again.
Link: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-circuits-with-a-Roland-CAMM-sign-cutte/
(for making PCBs
Other software is available available to help you to communicate with the cutter: http://www.olimex.com/pcb/dtools.html)(http://www.scribd.com/doc/33898235/pcbman)
(for making PCBs
Other software is available available to help you to communicate with the cutter: http://www.olimex.com/pcb/dtools.html)(http://www.scribd.com/doc/33898235/pcbman)
Visit this Roland gallery for ideas on how it might be employed in your art practice:
http://www.rolanddga.com/gallery/
Specs For Machine Here:
http://www.rolanddga.com/products/cutters/gx24/
