http://www.onemonk.com/guest-dl.html
Paper Realms has a Patreon where he is cranking out cutfiles on a monthly basis for many artists works, be sure to check out his Patreon;
https://www.patreon.com/paperrealms/posts
Showing posts with label Silhouette Portrait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silhouette Portrait. Show all posts
Cutfiles for Xtea's Horses
Thanks to MProteau of Paper Realms there are now automated cutting files available for the wonderful horse miniatures crafted by Xtea. Thanks Paper Realms!
http://www.onemonk.com/guest-dl.html
Paper Realms has a Patreon where he is cranking out cutfiles on a monthly basis for many artists works, be sure to check out his Patreon;
https://www.patreon.com/paperrealms/posts
http://www.onemonk.com/guest-dl.html
Paper Realms has a Patreon where he is cranking out cutfiles on a monthly basis for many artists works, be sure to check out his Patreon;
https://www.patreon.com/paperrealms/posts
Mayhem in Paper file updates at OBS
Updates and updates...For those of you who purchased sets through One Book Shelf you may have seen batches of update notices going out; Back in December I started updating all of the old files (print and cut) to be compatible with the latest Silhouette Studio3 cutting software. At this point most of the pdf's in the shop have been updated, but the cutting files...have issues. I made most of them years ago using the old CraftRobo software which created GSD format cutting files, which were read nicely by Version 2 of Silhouette Studio software, which is what CratRobo migrated to. Now Silhouette Studio is on version 3, which can still read GSD files, but has some issues when cutting them. In order to clean up this issue I'm making all new Studio3 files for all of the sets. It's going to take a bit of time as I'm also working on finishing new projects.
I will be updating at least one set per day, thank you for your patience and I apologize for any issues you may have run into with the files.
-Eric
Silhouette Portrait automated cutter-first trials
I purchased a Silhouette Portrait automated
cutter with the proceeds from Wargames Vault's Winter Offensive sale,
thanks everybody, and here's a little review and video demo.
Today I worked with my new Silhouette Portrait automatic cutter.
It's not terribly different from the Silhouette SD that I've been working with for the past five years so it was pretty easy to just hook up and go. I made sure to update my Silhouette cutting siftware first, available for free from their website, and then the Portrait came with a driver disc-the driver may also be available for free online.
I am using a page from Fat Dragon Games 'Ruined Outpost' set; the 2-inch wall sections. You need both the printed page and the matching cutting file to make this work. There's a nifty fellow there that goes by the name 'pblade' and he makes most of the cutting files for FDG on a volunteer basis.
I made a mistake in this test and forgot to discard the cutting lines on the part of the printout that had the doors and ended up chopping out a window sized piece from the doors section. Oops. Easy to fix with my x-acto and hopefully I'll remember next time. :/
* If you are new to automated cutters one of the most important things, and usually the biggest stumbling block starting out, is to make sure that the printout that you are cutting is shown actual size. Some print settings on some computers will stretch or compress images and then the cutting plot will be off or just plain not work at all.
In the video the plotter is cutting at maximum speed and a depth setting of six on the new ratchet blade. Nice and clean, very fast, I'm suitably impressed. It looks like, and I've heard on the net, that the new blades will fit into the old machines. I'll try that later this week and see how it goes.
Normally I make my own "carrier sheets" to hold my printouts, but some people have told me how much they love the tacky plastic carrier sheet that comes with the machine so I thought I'd try it out. If you look at the end of the video you'll see I had some issues with the excess paper sticking too well and not coming off of the carrier sheet. I cleaned mine with warm water after this test and it's less tacky now so I'm willing to give it another try.
The Portrait uses the newer style of registration mark with a little 5x5mm block in the lower left corner of the page. When I first put the page in it had the older style (no block) printed on it and the machine recognized it and was ready to go, but I had forgot to turn on the camera and had to restart. The Portrait wouldn't recognize the marks after that first time until I took a Sharpie and drew in the corner block reg-mark. Worked fine then. :)
I'm very pleased to have a reliable cutter at my disposal again and I'll try a few more experiments with it later this week.
Today I worked with my new Silhouette Portrait automatic cutter.
It's not terribly different from the Silhouette SD that I've been working with for the past five years so it was pretty easy to just hook up and go. I made sure to update my Silhouette cutting siftware first, available for free from their website, and then the Portrait came with a driver disc-the driver may also be available for free online.
I am using a page from Fat Dragon Games 'Ruined Outpost' set; the 2-inch wall sections. You need both the printed page and the matching cutting file to make this work. There's a nifty fellow there that goes by the name 'pblade' and he makes most of the cutting files for FDG on a volunteer basis.
I made a mistake in this test and forgot to discard the cutting lines on the part of the printout that had the doors and ended up chopping out a window sized piece from the doors section. Oops. Easy to fix with my x-acto and hopefully I'll remember next time. :/
* If you are new to automated cutters one of the most important things, and usually the biggest stumbling block starting out, is to make sure that the printout that you are cutting is shown actual size. Some print settings on some computers will stretch or compress images and then the cutting plot will be off or just plain not work at all.
In the video the plotter is cutting at maximum speed and a depth setting of six on the new ratchet blade. Nice and clean, very fast, I'm suitably impressed. It looks like, and I've heard on the net, that the new blades will fit into the old machines. I'll try that later this week and see how it goes.
Normally I make my own "carrier sheets" to hold my printouts, but some people have told me how much they love the tacky plastic carrier sheet that comes with the machine so I thought I'd try it out. If you look at the end of the video you'll see I had some issues with the excess paper sticking too well and not coming off of the carrier sheet. I cleaned mine with warm water after this test and it's less tacky now so I'm willing to give it another try.
The Portrait uses the newer style of registration mark with a little 5x5mm block in the lower left corner of the page. When I first put the page in it had the older style (no block) printed on it and the machine recognized it and was ready to go, but I had forgot to turn on the camera and had to restart. The Portrait wouldn't recognize the marks after that first time until I took a Sharpie and drew in the corner block reg-mark. Worked fine then. :)
I'm very pleased to have a reliable cutter at my disposal again and I'll try a few more experiments with it later this week.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)