What is POWERweed?
It can be seen in the figure 1 below that the objects to be cut are only surrounded by a weeding frame.
Especially when the objects are small, this is often insufficient for weeding them quickly and easily.
In the CoCut Pro cutting preview you have three possibilities of using this feature.
The POWERweed feature of CoCut Pro simplifies the weeding act by adding horizontal or vertical weeding lines.
These additional weeding lines besides the weeding frame, leave out the cut vectors of the objects. (See fig. 2 below)
Example of Adding Weeding Lines in the Cutting Preview
Fig. 1: Adding Horizontal/Vertical Weeding Lines
1. Manual/Individual
Position the mouse cursor on the weeding frame surrounding the objects.
The mouse cursor turns into a double arrow. Now drag the horizontal/vertical segment line (comparable with guidelines in your
illustration program) to the position where you wish to make a segment. Repeat the procedure until you have added all the
segment lines you wish.
2. Via the Options Menu
Select the particular menu item; once or as often as you like and in any order.
3. Via the Shortcuts ‘h’ or ‘v’)
‘H’ adds a horizontal, ‘V’ a vertical weeding line. The weeding line is set automatically in the middle of the width or height.
The second weeding line is set in the middle of the halfs, the next one in the middle of the quarters and so on.
In the figure below you can see how a cut job is prepared for cutting with segment lines.
Fig. 2: Example of Adding Horizontal/Vertical Segment Lines
It can be seen in the figure above that if you keep on clicking one of these two menu items the segments created
will be divided at the centre by further segment lines.
Result
Fig. 3: This Is To Be Cut in vinyl!
If the job to be cut is situated to the left of, above or below the material preview when the Cutting menu is activated,
you will automatically be informed that the objects to be cut are outside the cutting area.
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