I believe that you have to export the drawing to a *.plt file. That is a Plotter file that is in HPGL or HPGL2 language, which is what most vinyl cutting plotters understand. Once exported, then you should be able to send it to the cutter.
I have CoCut that does all the work for me. I have a macro in Draw that takes my drawing and imports it into CoCut and then from there, I can send each color to the cutter.
I have used my cutter directly from Corel Draw, using the cutter manufacturer's cutter driver (I believe Roland has one available for their machines). The cutter looks like just another printer in the list of printing devices attached to the PC. But with CoCut, I have more control over what is cut and how.....(That is fault of my cutter's software and not anything else.)
eoinie said:Hi Hugh Thanks for getting back. I've done the .plt file thing but doesn't seem to work. For instance if I draw a circle in Corel and export to the desktop as a .plt, I then open the .plt in Corel but all I get is a single line circle as was before I exported as .plt It doesn't have the double line needed to cut out the shape. Also, I mentioned in my first post, I have managed to trace a drawing which ends up as a double line drawing but this will only start the printer fan - the cutting head does not move. Regards
Hrm....for a double line circle, I would change the outline width from NONE to some positive number. Then do a CTL-SHFT-Q to convert the outline to an object. Then plot it. You should see it as two circles, one inside the other (or double lines, as you state, above).
Hope I intrepreted what you asked for, corectly.