VIRGO Cutting Manager User Manual
- June 4, 2024
- VIRGO
Table of Contents
Cutting Manager
User Manual
Cutting Manager
Virgo cutting manager (VIRGO CM)
USER INTERFACE
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Cutting file preview.
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Alignment adjustment controls.
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Status bar.
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Selects the cutting file.
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Open the last cutting file.
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Controls to move the media forward or backward.
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Camera preview.
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To set the distance between the base of each black mark.
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To set the size of the black marks.
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Enable or disable blank mode.
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To set the distance between each label. Any extra border on the bottom of your cutting file is added to the step.
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To set Graphtec’s blade strength and increase the cutting depth. Its value can be from 1 to 31. The most common values in label cutting are from 7 to 9.
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To set the cutting speed. Its value can be from 50 to 600. The most common value in label cutting is 600. If you have a cutting force major than 9, you may need to decrease the cutting speed to have proper precision.
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Flag to determine the number of copies to cut during a cutting job launched with the “Start” button, otherwise, the plotter will continue and stop at the end of the media.
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Counts the number of copies cut since pressing the “Start” button.
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Section where to put the number of copies needed to be cut.
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Start/Cancel button. Used to launch or stop a cutting job.
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Pause/Resume button. Used to pause or resume the cutting job.
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Used to launch a single cut to let the user check the cutting parameters.
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Advanced controls.
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Help: here you can find a path to open the user manual and useful video guides.
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Pad number: screen pad number is useful for the touch screen.
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Check force: If you click this button the plotter will make 5 squares each one with a different cut force. A number inside the square will show how much the force is increased or decreased. This is useful to find quickly the most proper force value for your material. however, we suggest starting with little values, in order to don’t damage accidentally the cutting mat with the high force squares.
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Settings
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List of cut logs
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Set interface’s language
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Restore the plotter’s settings
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Additional information
Settings
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When you launch a cut with new offsets, they will be added to the deltas. The deltas store the saved offsets.
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All the 100% magenta lines in your cutting file will be recognized as dashed. Here you can set the cut length and the spacing between each one of them. They must be at least 0.1mm, and not more than 819mm.
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Here you can choose to enable or disable the media or lamination sensors. If “Media/ Lamination sensors” is checked, when the material ends, the software stops the cut and will give you an alert.
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Approximation of the cut curves.
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If cut sorting is enabled, the software will automatically select the order of the cut of all the shapes on the file. Otherwise, the cut will follow the order of the .pdf layers.
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When you print your rolls, sometimes you may have distortion on your output. In that case, even with a correct set of offsets, the cut may not match your print. You will have to enable the distortion fixer and set the corrections. A positive value will stretch the cut on that axis, otherwise, with a negative one, the cut will be more compressed.
STEP 1 VERIFY THE
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE CUT WITH THE PRINT
STEP 2 AT THE POINT INDICATED, ADJUST THE OFFSET TO ALIGN THE CUT WITH THE PRINT
STEP 3 INCREASE OR DECREASE THE “STRETCH” PARAMETER (X)
Y-axis
** STEP 1:
VERIFY THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE CUT WITH THE PRINT
STEP 2: AT THE POINT INDICATED, ADJUST THE OFFSET TO ALIGN THE CUT WITH THE PRINT
STEP 3:** INCREASE OR DECREASE THE “COMPRESSION” PARAMETER (Y). -
With thin materials, the cut may not be closed. To fix this, enable the overcut, and set how much you want the blade to start early, or end later. You can anticipate or delay the end of the cut up to 0.9mm for each one.
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Check area parameters let you change the position of the Black-Mark’s checking area, which is the blue square shown in the camera preview while the blank mode is disabled.
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In case your print has distorted the output of your blackmark, you can change the tolerances to let the cam recognize it. The tolerances must be positive values. If your blackmark side is smaller than 4mm (for 4x4mm) or 2mm (for 2x2mm), you will have to reduce the minimum area by 100, until the blackmark is recognized. If your blackmark side is higher than 4mm (for 4x4mm) or 2mm (for 2x2mm), you will have to increase the maximum area by 100, until the blackmark is recognized.
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Click to restore the default settings.
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Discard the changes and closes the window.
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Save the changes and closes the window.
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Your artwork may be not printed straight. When this happens, the cutting lines will have a different grade from your artwork. To fix this you can rotate your cut. The arrow near the textbox shows you in which direction will be rotated your cut. Usually, the artwork should not be too rotated. When you check the cutting rotation we suggest you to change by 0.1 degrees with the arrows your value and then proceed with a cut test.
STEP
1. Check the match between the cut with the print.
2. Rotate the die-cut to find the correct inclination (until the cut lines and the printed lines are parallel).
3. Adjust the offsets to match the cut lines to the printed lines -
This button allows you to set the current values in your interface as the new preset for any time you will load a new file. When you click it one window will appear. Through it you can choose to update the main]interface preset, the settings preset or both of them.
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This button determines whether the cut starts in the middle of a vertical side, or not.
Report (25)
The report will display the cuts run by the Cutting Manager system.
Each session report is automatically added and saved into the history report
when the cutting manager is closed.
You can find the
complete report history file of all the jobs run since the cutting manager has
been installed to this path “C:/Virgo Cutting manager/Report/CutHistory.txt”.
Clicking on “SAVE AS” will save whichever work session report you choose to
save
HOW TO UPDATE SOFTWARE
- Go to Panel control.
- Uninstall Virgo Cutting Manager.
- Download from the website the new Cutting Manager release and run the installation.
DEVICE SELECTOR
Whenever you plug two units (YOU CAN NOT USE MORE AT THE SAME TIME) into the
pc, the device selector window will show up, and it will allow you to select
which machine to run. WHILE WORKING WITH TWO UNITS AT THE SAME TIME, PLEASE
USE A USB 3.0 HUB (ALSO PLUGGED INTO A USB 3.0 PORT)
