19 Cutting your Design
Before you can cut any design, make sure you have established a connection
from your design software to the Production Manager and created a setup
for your output device as instructed in the Production Manager User
Manual.
Sending the Document to the Device
1 From the File menu, select Cut / Plot.
If you have any object selected, only the selected objects will be cut.
2 Adjust the settings available in the dialog box as necessary and
click Send.
Cut/Plot Dialog Settings
The Cut/Plot dialog box gives you complete control over how the job is
produced.
The area on top of this dialog is common for all tabs:
Current Cutter
Displays the
Setup
Properties
Active jobs for this device
Tabs
Switches to
Production
Manager
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Cut / Plot Dialog - General Tab
The General tab allows you to specify the size of media, size of the job and
the location of your output on the media.
Material Group box
Sending Mode
Position Group box
Size Group box
Copies Group box
Preview Area
Color
Palette
Positioning tools
Zoom tools
You can resize the Cut/Plot dialog, by clicking and dragging the lower right
corner.
Material Settings
The Material group box allows you to specify the size of the media used in
your output device and entering the Media Width and Height. The media
size is used to panel your job if it is larger than the media.
Select your media size from the list or specify a custom size by
selecting User Defined.
Poll Size: polls the size of the media loaded in the cutter. This
feature only works if the device and port support bi-directional
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