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User Manual for contour cut function in FLEXI software

A.Setting OFFSET
1. Put a plot pen which with lead into the blade base, press ONLINE
original point key in Online status to debug out the laser.

2. Make a small rectangle in the software, pitch on it, then click Effects
add the outline.

MENU

Contour Cut to

3. In the pop up dialogue, setting the distance between the image and the outline as 0 cm, then
click Apply.
The distance between
the image and outline

4. Click Effects

Contour Cut Mark to add the mark pointsShown as following.

5. Choose 2 mark points in the pop up dialogue, and then click Apply (shown as following).

6. Press print, and setting 100% in the Scale (shown as following), then print out the graph.

7After print out the graph, click Cut Contour.

8Press Options in the pop up dialogue, Double-click the contour cutting in the Options, then
setting the OFFSET as 0

9. After Click send, pop up following dialogue, click OK

10. Click the left arrow in the Interactive Alignment dialogue (shown as following), the carriage
will move a distances automatically. Put the printed material into the cutting plotter and let the
laser aim at the first mark point (the junction of ),. then depress the paperweight wheel, if
the laser isnt completely aim at the laser point, control the buttons to adjust it for aim at the
laser point exactly, after aim at it, click OK

11. Control the arrow in above dialogue, aim at the second mark point by the same way, then click
OK

12. After setting well all of the mark points, click OK in following dialogue, then the cutter start
working.

13. After test the outline shown as following, the outline is high 18.5mm and right 21mm than
original graph, then setting the OffsetX to -18.5, OffsetY to 21(different cutter have different
Offset, depend on measure, if the outline low 18.5mm and left 21mm than original graph, then
setting the OffsetX to 18.5 and OffsetY for -21)

The outline

The original graph

14. Click send, test it again, the outline is low 1mm and left 0.5mm than original graph, setting
Offset to -17.5(= -18.5+1) and OffsetY to 20.5 (=21-0.5). (If the outline is high 1mm and right
0.5mm than original graph, setting Offset to -19.

15. Same way as the above, test and adjust the Offset until the outline superposition with the
original graph. After test over, please save it and have no use for amend it in future.

B. Using FLEXI to cutting contour.

1. Press ONLINE

MENU

original point key in Online status to debug out the laser

2. Open or import a graph from FLEXI, pitch on it, then click Effects
Contour Cut to make
the outline (the graph made in CORELDRAW, when import it, had best to save as AI format)

3. In the pop up dialogue, adjust the distance between the image and the dialogue, and make sure
whether there is outline inside the image or not. After setting well, click APPLY.
The distance between the outline
and the image

Chose outline inside the image

4. Click Effects

Contour Cut Mark to make the mark point

5. Choose 2 or 4 mark points in the pop up box, that is easier operation to choose 2 points, but the
resolution is low than choose 4 points. Click APPLY after choosing mark points.

6. If do the contour cutting on the printed graph, please choose print first, then Setting Scale as
100% in print setting shown as following,

7. If do contour cutting on the graph which was printed by inkjet printer or other equipments,
output it. When output the graph, you can click the front of Suppress options to delete
it, and choose the higher Resolution in the pop up dialogue to improve print resolution.

8. After print out, clickCut Contour to do contour cutting.

9. Double-click contour cut in the Options, then setting the correct Offset in the pop up box.(the
set details reference the user manual of OFFSET)

10. After Click send shown as following, click OK

11.Click the left arrow in the Interactive Alignment dialogue (shown as following), the carriage
will move a distances automatically. Put the printed material into the cutting plotter and let the
laser aim at the first mark point (the junction of ),. then depress the paperweight wheel, if
the laser isnt completely aim at the laser point, control the buttons to adjust it for aim at the
laser point exactly, after aim at it, click OK

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12. Control the buttons in the dialogue, aim at another three mark points by the same way, then
click OK

13. After setting well all of the mark points, shown as followings, click OK, then the cutter start
working.