Good evening everyone,
It's been a long time since I've visited the forums, so please excuse me coming back with a question!
Some years back I used Coreldraw X3 I think with my Graphtec CE5000 cutter. From memory Coreldraw used a Graphtec utility go between - cutting master. It worked fine :)
I recently gave my cutter to my daughter who wanted to learn how to cut shapes out of vinyl. I bought Coreldraw X6 Home & Student for her and installed it on her computer. Also Graphtec's Cutting Master 3.
When I tried to show her how to cut a simple shape, I created a square, clicked the 'Launcher' tool and selected 'Send Cut Cut Lines to CM3, I think this is the way I used to do it!
The following error was displayed titled:
Lancher
'Could not connect to Coreldraw'.
I've tried to research the problem and discovered there are differences between Coreldraw x6 retail and X6 Home & Student.
I'm wondering if this is one such restriction in which case I won't spend any more time researching a resolution.
If the problem is not the result of a restriction, would anyone here have any suggestions for overcoming the problem?
Cheers
John
Stitch-Up said:my Graphtec CE5000 cutter.
Shouldn't you be able to print straight to the plotter/cutter from CorelDraw? When I ran my roland I always ran it from corel and not the software that roland included.
Thanks for the reply guys
I believe the Cutting Master 3 interface between Coreldraw & the Graphtec cutter would be classed as a macro - that's just my guess of course.
To be honest, if I'd known there were these differences between the retail & 'Home & Student' packages, I wouldn't have bought it. Perhaps it's hidden in the small print - I don't know?
Seems like I've wasted £100+. I also read somewhere during my research there are other differences too.
I'll contact Dell and ask for a refund. Nothing ventured and all that ...
I don't think it's possible to just Print to the cutter.