ladman
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I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this or not. Its been a while since i have been on here.
I'm not sure if anyone else has done this, but i experimented around with my cameo this morning and came up with a neat concept.
I have not been able to get my cameo to cut on the exact lines that i have printed out on my cardstock. So i came up with an idea that works perfect for how i go about it. Since the cameo prints out what it sees in the program, it does not matter really what color it is, so with that being said, what i did was in the pepakura designer, after i cut up my templates and laid them out, i turned all the edges and folds white, but if you are using a template that has hidden lines, do not change those, still leave those hidden. Weird right, stay with me.
Next this as a different file name, for naming convention sake, i just call them whatever the part is and then _NoColor. These are saved in a file i have called Cameo Prints inside my projects folder. Now you should have a color version and a non-color version. Also, forgot this part, in your color version of this file, make sure that you have your valley and mountain lines in different colors. I use red for mountain folds and green for valley folds, this is important in a step coming up.
Now open up your pep viewer for cameo software and open up the _NoColor file of your part. Set up your registration points. Tip: make sure your paper and print settings are set correctly or your registration points will not come out right and your layout will be off. If you are using Letter, set it to letter, and A4 to A4. I found that using a letter paper and setting your registration points to 16, 16, 16, 16 is perfect.
Now you are ready to print out your templates. When you go to print them out, it is simple, just go to file, print, and select your printer and your good to go. When you print out your templates, all that is going to print is your registration points. See where im going with this?
Now that you have printed your “blank” templates, you are ready to have the cameo cut them out. I am going to assume by this point that you have a cameo and that you know how to set it up and cut. If you do not, here is a link to the best tutorial I have found that I used to set up my cameo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf9dCM5RRys
Now when you load your template to have cut, make sure you load the one that has color. This is important because when the cameo goes to cut the templates, it needs to see the valley and mountain lines so that it can put them on the templates for you. If you are not concerned with those then you can skip this part. When you go to after you pick which page you are going to cut, select the details tab. Make sure that you check off, cut, mountain, and valley boxes. Once you click OK, the print setup screen will come up. Here, make sure that you select your cameo printer, NOT your regular printer. Select the properties tab to the right of where your printer is listed. Open up the cutline settings tab. In here you need to add another color, I use red. Make sure next to the cutline color, that you select dashed line. This will have the cameo read the mountain and valley folds in your template and then it will cut dashed lines on those. Now, you will have to use a marker to separate the lines so you know which ones are mountains and valleys. Now all you have to do is click ok, and then begin your cutting.
I like this approach, because it makes the cameo work like a CNC machine, it will cut of the templates on your black pages.
I'm not sure if anyone else has done this, but i experimented around with my cameo this morning and came up with a neat concept.
I have not been able to get my cameo to cut on the exact lines that i have printed out on my cardstock. So i came up with an idea that works perfect for how i go about it. Since the cameo prints out what it sees in the program, it does not matter really what color it is, so with that being said, what i did was in the pepakura designer, after i cut up my templates and laid them out, i turned all the edges and folds white, but if you are using a template that has hidden lines, do not change those, still leave those hidden. Weird right, stay with me.
Next this as a different file name, for naming convention sake, i just call them whatever the part is and then _NoColor. These are saved in a file i have called Cameo Prints inside my projects folder. Now you should have a color version and a non-color version. Also, forgot this part, in your color version of this file, make sure that you have your valley and mountain lines in different colors. I use red for mountain folds and green for valley folds, this is important in a step coming up.
Now open up your pep viewer for cameo software and open up the _NoColor file of your part. Set up your registration points. Tip: make sure your paper and print settings are set correctly or your registration points will not come out right and your layout will be off. If you are using Letter, set it to letter, and A4 to A4. I found that using a letter paper and setting your registration points to 16, 16, 16, 16 is perfect.
Now you are ready to print out your templates. When you go to print them out, it is simple, just go to file, print, and select your printer and your good to go. When you print out your templates, all that is going to print is your registration points. See where im going with this?
Now that you have printed your “blank” templates, you are ready to have the cameo cut them out. I am going to assume by this point that you have a cameo and that you know how to set it up and cut. If you do not, here is a link to the best tutorial I have found that I used to set up my cameo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf9dCM5RRys
Now when you load your template to have cut, make sure you load the one that has color. This is important because when the cameo goes to cut the templates, it needs to see the valley and mountain lines so that it can put them on the templates for you. If you are not concerned with those then you can skip this part. When you go to after you pick which page you are going to cut, select the details tab. Make sure that you check off, cut, mountain, and valley boxes. Once you click OK, the print setup screen will come up. Here, make sure that you select your cameo printer, NOT your regular printer. Select the properties tab to the right of where your printer is listed. Open up the cutline settings tab. In here you need to add another color, I use red. Make sure next to the cutline color, that you select dashed line. This will have the cameo read the mountain and valley folds in your template and then it will cut dashed lines on those. Now, you will have to use a marker to separate the lines so you know which ones are mountains and valleys. Now all you have to do is click ok, and then begin your cutting.
I like this approach, because it makes the cameo work like a CNC machine, it will cut of the templates on your black pages.
