Vinyl cutting
Lettering and decals with weed borders and weed lines, mirrored for heat transfer when they should be.
Lettering, decals and graphics cut from sign vinyl and heat-transfer vinyl on a drag-knife cutter, with weed boxes and weed lines to strip the waste, and contour cuts round printed designs.
What you can design
6 parametric designs come in the library's Vinyl cutting folder (File › Run Parametric…): open one, type your sizes and the drawing follows. Open any of them in the viewer to try it.
The trade's tools
For a drawing whose industry is Vinyl cutting, the toolbar and Edit › Tool offer these tools beside the general drawing, editing and dimensioning tools. Each is parametric: change a size, or move a point it was drawn on, and what it made follows.
Weed Border
A weed box round the design, a margin out.
On the toolbar's Weeding button
Weed Lines
Cuts across the waste, stopping at the letters.
On the toolbar's Weeding button
HTV Mirror
A mirrored copy for heat-transfer vinyl.
Contour Cut
A cut round a printed design, a distance out, for print-and-cut.
Tiling
A design larger than the roll split into overlapping panels.
Colour Separation
The same registration marks on every colour's layer.
Exports
File › Export › Export… lists these formats first for a Vinyl cutting drawing:
And the formats every trade uses:
Machine profiles
File › Send Using Machine Profile sends the drawing to a machine in one click, with the format, options, layer names and pens it needs. These come with the app:
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Emulator: Graphtec cutter (GP-GL)
GP-GL (Graphtec)
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Emulator: plotter / cutter (HP-GL)
HP-GL
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Emulator: plotter / cutter (HP-GL/2)
HP-GL
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Graphtec cutter (GP-GL)
GP-GL (Graphtec)
Graphtec CE / FC / CE LITE cutting plotters
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Vinyl cutter (HP-GL)
HP-GL
Roll and flatbed cutters that read HP-GL: Roland CAMM-1 (CAMM-GL III, HP-GL mode), Summa (HP-GL/DM-PL), Mimaki, GCC
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Vinyl cutter with camera registration (HP-GL)
HP-GL
Roll cutters with a camera or an optical sensor that a registration extension can drive (here the simulated camera, to try it out)
Read more
The help's page for the trade describes each tool, design, report and export in full.
Other trades
Get ParametrIQ CAD
Included in every plan. Install it, activate it, and start with File › New or File › Run Parametric…