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Post by Sirrob01 on Oct 8, 2010 15:33:12 GMT -9
I suspect most people who have a Robo or SD have worked this out, but I thought I'd post what settings I cut on etc in case they are useful to anyone else, maybe others could chip in with there settings . I always 2 pass cut on miniatures, seems to work the robo/blade less hard and I end up with a nicer cut. I just select all the cut geometry and copy and paste it back down before beginning to cut. My paper is 200-220 gsm matte photo paper New Blade Settings Speed :6-7 Cut cap: Pink ( I never change it I just set the cut pressure lighter) Pressure: 15 Homemade carrier sheets ie glue on cheapcard - good for 10-20 cuts As the blade gets duller I increase the cut pressure, I've found that once your at 26-28 the blades pretty much stuffed for miniatures and will begin to rip instead of cutting especially with matte photo paper. You get a sort of fuzzy halo of paper around your mini. However a blade thats no good for miniatures will normally be fine for cutting straight lines and simple curves (say geometry from the FDG cog or WWG Tlinx). I've been swapping mine back and forth depending on what I'm cutting. I've ditched the little plastic clip that holds the blades in (look in the top of your blade holder you can just see it) so I can quickly swap them over (Highlandpipers tip). There's no impact to cutting by ditching the clip. Hopefully this info's semi useful
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Post by nikloveland on Oct 9, 2010 5:04:40 GMT -9
Yeah, I 2-pass cut all my minis too. It makes things come off much better. I then increase the pressure as the blades get dull but I haven't had problems with the blade ripping the cut material. Maybe because I'm not using custom made cutting mats.
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Post by Sirrob01 on Oct 9, 2010 13:50:40 GMT -9
I suspect it's more the cheaper quality matte photo-paper I'm using, plus I pushed my last blade for along time before switching it as an endurance test. That I can remember it cut: ~ all my fox's ~ Bears native, colonial and the dino's ~ The warbands I did for the gaming weekend ~ Spiders, Bugbears and Dragons ~ about 8 pages of elves at 15mm (I find these are really hard on blades) ~ 2 Wolverines at 30mm and 1 x15 and 1x18 ~ 2 dragonflies ~ 4 sand gecko's ~ 4-5 pages of bases ~ some stuff for Parduz about 16 pages ~ few pages of armour grid items ~ 1 of Mels doomballs ~ 10 tiles of tlinx (before I started swapping blades) I've probably missed some stuff my best estimate is it cut around 150-200 pages before I changed the blade out. I probably should keep a close track on this one
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Post by old squirmydad on Oct 9, 2010 17:59:15 GMT -9
I only do one pass cutting with the blade speed set to 6 and the depth set to maximum. Blade quality is probably degraded by paper type, what is your most common type of paper that you run through your machine? I've passed 300 pages cut and my blade hasn't shown any noticeable wear. Most of what I cut is figures on 67lb matte photo paper, which is soft yet strong. I was using 110lb paper for terrain and vehicles, mainly for strength. When I was cutting out a bunch of WWG's Swampworks with the Silhouette and I was using 110lb stock for everything I noticed a bunch of missed or partial cuts showing up. I thought the blade might be getting dull but all of the figures I was cutting were fine. I switched to only using the 110lb paper as backing sheets and found a good 80lb stock that was almost as strong as the 110lb and had a brighter finish and the cutter has had no problems with it. YMMV
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Post by Sirrob01 on Oct 9, 2010 20:27:33 GMT -9
220gsm double side matte photo paper: Text: 220 gsm = 148.6486 lbs Cover: 220 gsm = 81.2408 lbs not sure what it equates to in lb's other than the above as a guide, but my blade definitely can't cut it cleanly anymore. End up with uncut throughs in tight corners etc. Still okay for straight and 90 degree cuts but nothing organic. I'm pretty restricted by paper as far as matte photo paper go's: ~ cheap ebay paper 20c a page or ~$2 page from office supply place. Must be magic paper you get over there
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Post by old squirmydad on Oct 9, 2010 21:56:05 GMT -9
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