Computer-Controlled Cutting

Vinyl cutter:-

A vinyl cutter is a type of computer-controlled machine. Small vinyl cutters look like a desktop printer. Like a printer controls a nozzle, the computer controls the movement of a sharp blade over the surface of the material. This blade is used to cut out shapes and letters from sheets of thin self-adhesive plastic (vinyl). The vinyl can then be stuck to a variety of surfaces depending on the adhesive and type of material.

Vinyl cutter in our fab lab is brand of Roland.

1.how to fix vinyl spindle for cutting
How to load the vinyl roll.
it has a small knife which should be take care for its tips for Better cutting of designed images.
The knife is fitted with turners and its moves side to side.Vinyl is put under the knife for cutting.two roller which need to roll the fed vinyl. It Can be used as plotter too. it is a 2 axis machine.

Operating procedure:-

Clean the dust or any plastic materials in the roller before starting of activity.
Power on the vinyl cutter with power connector is provided on the side of the vinyl cutter.
load the vinyl materials in the backside rollers
after loading the materials pass through the printer and make proper align with guided line in the machine.
A blade is used for cutting the vinyl which is place in blade holder.
two pitch rollers are in the vinyl cutter which have to be adjusted on the left and the right side of the vinyl sheet so that the sheet is properly fixed for cutting place.
There are white colored markings is roughness is provided which can hold the pitch roller properly.
adjusted on the grit roller and the pitch roller on the white colored marks in such a way that minimum sheet is wasted during the vinyl cutting.
set origin and decide force then start
make a design of my own name and make to format of the file into .cmm using http://fabmodules.org/

tapas@tapas:~$ cd mods/

tapas@tapas:~/mods$ ls -l

total 584

-rw-rw-r-- 1 tapas tapas 15406 Feb 18 18:17 favicon.ico

-rw-rw-r-- 1 tapas tapas 391347 Feb 18 18:17 files.html

-rw-rw-r-- 1 tapas tapas 265 Feb 18 18:17 index.html

-rw-rw-r-- 1 tapas tapas 647 Feb 18 18:17 install-mods

drwxrwxr-x 3 tapas tapas 4096 Feb 18 18:17 js

-rwxrwxr-x 1 tapas tapas 305 Feb 18 18:17 make

-rwxrwxr-x 1 tapas tapas 103 Feb 18 18:17 make_version

-rw-rw-r-- 1 tapas tapas 129581 Feb 18 18:17 mods.png

drwxrwxr-x 25 tapas tapas 4096 Feb 18 18:17 modules

drwxrwxr-x 3 tapas tapas 4096 Feb 19 11:37 node_modules

-rw-rw-r-- 1 tapas tapas 0 Feb 18 19:43 package.json

drwxrwxr-x 9 tapas tapas 4096 Feb 18 18:17 programs

drwxrwxr-x 2 tapas tapas 4096 Feb 18 18:17 py

-rw-rw-r-- 1 tapas tapas 2594 Feb 18 18:17 README.md

-rwxrwxr-x 1 tapas tapas 2875 Feb 18 18:17 start-servers

-rw-rw-r-- 1 tapas tapas 2302 Feb 18 18:17 style.css

drwxrwxr-x 2 tapas tapas 4096 Feb 18 18:17 test

-rw-rw-r-- 1 tapas tapas 11 Feb 18 18:17 version

tapas@tapas:~/mods$ git pull

remote: Enumerating objects: 9, done.

remote: Counting objects: 100% (9/9), done.

remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.

remote: Total 5 (delta 3), reused 4 (delta 2), pack-reused 0

Unpacking objects: 100% (5/5), done.

From https://github.com/fabfoundation/mods

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