Hit the "Plot Paths" button and then "Send". If you hit "Test Connection" the vinyl should move.Ħ) You can make any adjustments you need to the material size/margins, but in general you can just go for testing purposes. If you are having trouble, you can go to the Properties button, I had "Serial" for the interface, and then expand the Serial tree and the port should be what was listed in step 3 on the output (/dev/ttyUSB0 for me). It didn't show anything for device, but don't worry, it still works. For me, all the defaults were fine - I didn't have to mess with the properties at all. Now you have a single path that's ready to cut!ĥ) Select your new path, and go to Extensions > Cutter / Plotter > InkCut. Now select everything and go to Path > Union. Then select everything and go to Path > Object to path. I never had to do anything with this, but now you know just in case.Ĥ) Now for the fun! Go into Inkscape, open some file you want to try cutting (maybe make a star if you don't have anything).
Now we know that it is connected as /dev/ttyUSB0. usb 2-1: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0 ftdi_sio 2-1:1.0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter detected usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5 If you want to make sure it connected, just run:
The USB port on the cutter is really just a serial port emulator, but fortunately, the driver is preinstalled in the kernel. This installs the extension so it will be available in Inkscape.ģ) Connect the vinyl cutter. Open that folder, and select both the inkcutext1.inx and inkcut folder, and copy them to /home/yourusername/.config/inkscape/extensions. Go to where you downloaded the file, right-click, and Extract Here.Ģ) You should get an InkCut-1.0 folder. You can get it from here () I also have it attached to this post just in case. This is what comes with Ubuntu 10.04, which is what I tested this on. No more Windows and that SignBlazer junk the cutter came with!ġ) First, you will need Inkscape 0.47 or higher for the extension to work. If you're like me and have been looking everywhere for a way to use one of these vinyl cutters (works for other types of vinyl cutters, too), this is the place! Thanks to this extension () called InkCut for Inkscape, you can output directly to the cutter.
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