Week3 - Vinyl Cut
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Vinyl Cut Machine
We will complete the vinyl cutting assignment by Brother ScanNCut SDX-1200.
This is a cutter with a built-in scanner which allow to scan any image or sketch and then precisely cut the shapes or outlines, with no need for design cartidges or a PC. It's very simply to operate.
The basic user manual can be found here.
Step of using the vinyl cut machine
First, some images are found for cutting the outlines.
I choose the logo of our lab and a T-shirt logo of Mechanical Engineering - National Taiwan University.
Let's us start from the fablab logo. A mat is needed for positioning the image on paper or sticker.
There's stickiness on the mat. Now we can stick a A4 paper with printed image onto the mag. Then, press the load button to load the mat.
In this machine, we can cut the pattern figure or scan the image.
Then, we choose "Scan", and we choose "Scan to Cut Data" and start scanning.
After scanning the image, the scanned result will be displayed on the screen.
There are 3 grayscale recogition mode to determine the cutting route: The results are shown as below:
- Outline Detection
- Region Detection
- Line Detection
We can see the cutting route (Black thin line in the image) are different.
In this case, we choose Region Detection mode. Then, we save the scanning data to the machine.
We load the saved data and choose the cutting file.
Modify the cutting area.
We can choose the mode : Cut or Draw. Now we choose cut.
Finally, press start button to start cutting!
Remove the clout, the needed image still sticks on the mat. It can be made as a sticer!!
I also tried the other image.
