Gimp To 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.

Gimp to vinyl cutter.

Cutting vinyl letters and shapes. I m using a roland versastudio 20 vinyl printer cutter. The vinyl cutter uses a small knife to precisely cut the outline of a picture into a sheet or piece of vinyl. 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. Prepare the file with the vinyl cutter s bundled program i use roland cutstudio but you can use inkscape or another program. The knife moves side to side and turns while the vinyl is moved beneath the knife. The material is then weeded where the excess parts of the picture are removed.

With inkscape open the image file created in gimp. We bought a jaguariv plotter for cutting clear bra but i was thinking that we could also use it to cut vinyl graphics. To create my vector file i used inkscape. 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.

Anytime i buy a new pc the first software i ll install is inkscape and gimp. 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. How to take an image file on the desktop and turn it into something that the vinyl cutter will understand.

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