Gimp Vinyl Cutter

Anytime i buy a new pc the first software i ll install is inkscape and gimp.

Gimp vinyl cutter.

Cutting vinyl letters and shapes. When you have your design all set send it to the vinyl cutter. Prepare the file with the vinyl cutter s bundled program i use roland cutstudio but you can use inkscape or another program. That eps file can have very thin hairline lines of a specific color 100 magenta to tell the rip software where to cut.

I have been watching some tutorials about paths and i m getting quite good at manipulating curves and such. With inkscape open the image file created in gimp. Cnc laser cutters vinyl cutters plasma waterjet routers they all will read a dxf file. An application for controlling 2d plotters cutters engravers and cnc machines.

The versaworks software rip software needs an eps file to know what to print. I m using a roland versastudio 20 vinyl printer cutter. But i don t know if i can output to the plotter from gimp. To create my vector file i used inkscape.

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. It s free and a must have for all hobbyists. We bought a jaguariv plotter for cutting clear bra but i was thinking that we could also use it to cut vinyl graphics.

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. 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. Add a box around the image leaving at least 2 3 of margin around all sides of your image so that the ink won t seep around the edges.