contour cutting mh refine 721

[Frostee]

I'm having issues with contour cutting.

Firstly i tried with signcut.

when setting up it draws the + and allows me to move the plotter left and right to calibrate the offset. when i want to actually do the contour cut though and have to move the lazer to the registration marks the plotter will not move at all.

now i've had issues with signcut in the past so figured i'd give something else a try in the mean time. Downloaded a trial of winpcsign.

i can cut designs fine but once again when trying the contour cut the plotter wont budge. Not even the offset testing.

what type of thing could be causing this? i've got my plotter connected by usb and i'm using windows 7. the usb driver installed is the ch340 one and im on com port 6.

any help would greatly be appreciated

[Justin]

Refine MH721 doesn't have a laser for contour cutting, it's merely a red led :-( Paul did post a while ago on here a way of contour cutting.

[Frostee]

Yeah I know it aint going to read the registration marks with the Lazer, That's why I'm trying to position it manually via the buttons. It just doesn't seem to want to move at all in winpcsign and will only move during the offset in sign cut. I do remember reading a post on here about it with it linking to a video but that video didn't actually show anything other than how to make an outline around a bitmap. Unless there is another post I've missed?

[Paul]

how about flexisign or starter? i am successful with them.
here is me cutting via flexi

[Frostee]

ah so thats you! recognized the voice. I watched a video of you making your own home made sticky flock some time last year haha.

is there a trial of flexisign available anywhere? if it works im all for buying it but dont wanna buy it only to be in the same position i'm in now.

[Paul]

I think there is demo but not sure it will let you cut so not that good really :/

[Frostee]

well that kinda sucks :/ so its a case of buy it and see if it works.

[Paul]

Yep. Or borrow it of someone :)

[Frostee]

wanna lend me yours? ;-)

ok so over the past 4 hours or so i've managed to acquire a version of flexi sign pro 8.1. Had a few issues but finally managed to get it to cut things nicely and trace bitmaps to create contour outlines and put registration amrks on it although it was a very different process than what flexistarter 10 seems to use.

i had to do the rip//print to add registration marks.

anyways thats done. got it printed, next step contour cutting

flexisign doesnt have that contour cut button you had. when i click cut though it says contour cut on the bottom. when I press send though instead of getting that box up where you got to align it to the registration marks it just starts cutting. it cuts the right shape but obviously not in the right place.

also flexisign didnt have uscutter as a manufacturer. I found an XPERT EH721 listed in there though which cuts the right sizes etc.

on your video the screen shots were very small by this point as it was just a small picture in picture type thing. what id the dialog box called or what are the options. i noticed someone else commented on your video having this same problem. i've been googling a lot trying to find out why it not popping up but without knowing what the actual options say exactly its proving difficult to find anything.

[Paul]

if you used rip and print option you will have small window pop up. is called job menagerie or something like that :)
there should be your printer and cutter set up there. after hitting rip and print both, printer and cutter will have this same job. printer will have all image with reg marks and cutter will have outline job. you need to click on cutter and then "send"