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.
Stitch-Up said: 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. John
Hi.
I'm not sure about Cutting Master but other programs let you import the file, or even direct drag and drop from Draw. Worth a try.
~John
It's a few years since I used my Graphtec cutter but I had need to contact them for some reason due to problems with their print driver [not compatable with Windows 7??? - can't remember off hand] but they were very helpful. Give them a call.