Vinyl cutter
A vinyl cutter is a type of computer-controlled machine. Small vinyl cutters look like computer printers.
The computer controls the movement of a sharp blade. This blade is used to cut out shapes and letters from sheets of thin self-adhesive plastic.
How vinyl cutter works
The vinyl cutter uses a small knife to precisely cut the outline of a picture into a sheet or piece of vinyl. The knife moves side to side and turns, while the vinyl is moved beneath the knife. The results from the cut process is an image cut into the material. The material is then 'weeded' where the excess parts of the picture are removed. It is possible to remove the positive parts, which would give a negative sticker, or you could weed the negative parts, giving a positive sticker. Removing the letters would be like removing the positive, giving a negative image of the word, etc.
I like butterfly so I want to cut butterfly design for my laptop.I take that design from internet then i open that file on photoshop.I edit that design and save it as png.
open fab module on ubuntu,In our lab we have lot of internet issue thats why we use the offline version of fab module
Imported this png file in fabmodule ;selected printer type Roland vinyl cutter and made camm file for this.Printed this on vinyl cutter with settings force and velocity settings.Speed-5cm/s, force-110gf, material-green vinyl
Then I cut my design and I paste masking tape on that part.
This design I put on my laptop.
My laptop now look nice.
Project part-making a circuit flow chart with vinyl
I make the circuit flow chart on vinyl cutter, for that I draw all the names of board using the text command in photoshop,then I save this file as .png ,then I import my image in computer,first I open the fab module then set the image type .png,set the machine as vinyl cutter and then click on rml.
I Import the above text file and first time its size was more so it is out of that vinyl paper ,then I reduce the size and again Import the file now size is okay.then I set the force and speed ,I set the green colour for cutting.for cutting I use the Speed-5cm/s, force-110gf,
Then I use the paper tape and I put that paper tape on the surface of my output cutting from vinyl and then I press it more and slowly i remove that part and I stick it on the press fit casing that I had make for electronics casing.
Then I cut the arrow and I place that arrow to show the work flow.Remove the text is little difficult rather than logo design. The above flow shows that SUN is give the power to the my controller board and it work as input device for that first we have to reduce its voltage by using step down then it gives to supercapacitor then supercapacitor again step up voltage and giving to relay board to run the motor
learning outcomes
Actually i didnt get any idea for vinyl cutter but at the end i thought that circuit flow is best idea for vinyl becausse every person who see my project ,he wants to know how my system is run thats why I choose this and nice machine.