If I live to be a hundred, I'll still forget to weld scripts together before cutting. I have done this more times than I care to remember, and every time I do it I feel stupider and stupider. I need a window that pops up and says "Did you remember to weld the scripts?" They got a window for everything else..........
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
Hahahahaaaa.....Jeff...all ya gotta do is train yer plotter to automatically weld script!..
My Quills all know how!
[ September 15, 2003, 06:22 PM: Message edited by: Si Allen ]
Posted by Jeff Ogden (Member # 3184) on :
Yup, I'd like to find that command Si.
Posted by Mark Yearwood (Member # 2723) on :
Jeff, you have to install one of them Script Welder tools on your puter. Be careful not to catch the backing paper on fire, though.
Posted by Bill Biggs (Member # 18) on :
Jeff, a good way to remember to weld script is to view in wireframe before cutting. I use signlab and it gives you a wireframe preview that you have to ok before it plots. I don't know your programs, but since I started using signlab, I have never forgotten to weld scripts (a big fat lie) Bill
Posted by Michael Boone (Member # 308) on :
Good response Bill I do that as well...Only in VMP it is not automatic another habit I have is convert to curves..before final save...down the road....the font that was used to create the job may be missing..
Posted by Jeff Ogden (Member # 3184) on :
Bill...I design in Corel and cut in Signlab. That makes my stupidity double bad, cause I have to see the wireframe before cutting and STILL cut it unwelded. I think I am missing a few bytes of memory in MY harddrive !
Posted by Glenn S. Harris (Member # 2190) on :
You could hire some hacker kid to write a plugin for Signlab that creates a pop-up any time you try to plot a script font!
Posted by Bob Stephens (Member # 858) on :
I have an automatic check list committed to memory that I go through each and every time before I send a job to plot.
Just takes stubborn determination not to let yourself forget so you have to kick yourself in the butt all the time.
Another reason I seldom forget is that I always tweak the kerning of every letter especially with the scripts so when you connect any two letters you can see the overlap very easily.
No different really than making sure the lid is closed tight on a a can of 1-shot before driving off down the road. Couple of times of smelling the gas in your vehicle you used to clean up the paint spill will make you a quick learner.
Posted by Joe Rees (Member # 211) on :
quote:Originally posted by Glenn S. Harris: You could hire some hacker kid to write a plugin for Signlab that creates a pop-up any time you try to plot a script font!
Actually that is an excellent idea. So good, the program writers should have thought of it and made it a standard feature of the program. I mean, Signlab is MADE for sending jobs to a plotter - they KNOW we do it all day long - if the program can't automatically weld them for you, there should at least be a reminder. I can understand Corel not doing it, as the developer's consider it a publishing and illustrating program with sign making being an ugly stepchild. But it sure seems that a sign-specific program should address this. Anybody listening???
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
i design in corel and cut with the cocut pro plugin,, it has an automatic weld widonw tht pops up. and if i forget ... the final preview reminds me to weld the scripts..
happy, happy, happy,, joy, joy, joy,
lol
[ September 15, 2003, 08:49 PM: Message edited by: Curtis hammond ]
Posted by Talisman (Member # 1869) on :
Jeff,
I can feel your pain....
Joe
Posted by Gail & Dave Beattie (Member # 572) on :
I always start in wireframe, finish off in colour mode to check everything looks right... (and for customer artwork approval)
then start cutting from wire frame view
my problem isn't welding scripts, but reversing stuff for glass
i have cut the same job 3 times... all the wrong way cause i keep forgeting that it has to be reversed
funny how we each have mental blocks where somethings are concerned
cheers gail
Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :
Jeff
I format my layout and design.To affrim if it is Colour or Single Cut.. Next going to the cut mode...... I do a full visual inspection to make sure that the objects are in place and the WELD is ON!
But at times when this overlap happens, Then I use a fine brush or even a Q-Tip to edge seal the cut after I have placed it.
3-M Seal Auto Seal Arcylic Seal One-Shot UV Clear
Preview cutting before sending to Plotter..
[ September 15, 2003, 10:31 PM: Message edited by: Stephen Deveau ]
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I need a window that pops up and says "Did you remember to weld the scripts?" They got a window for everything else..........
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