What's New For VinylMaster V5

Plugins & Modules

Turn color or monochrome images and photos into cuttable artwork which appears to be a photo from a distance!

Measures the length of the perimeter of a selected vector object or text. Ideal for working out the length of the material (aluminium/plastic/metal etc.) required to make extruded letters or shapes.

Make your own QR codes which can be used for many purposes inc. a website link.

The Rhinestone module allows you to create an outher path and/or to fill a shape or text with all popular rhinestone sizes with several fill styles (patterns) to be cut out and used as a stencil.

Allows you to modify artwork so that the holes do not fall out.

Automatically interlocks objects of the same color together on the page to significantly reduce media (vinyl) wastage.

New option to automatically create a clipping path around images, when generating a cutting contour (allows nesting images with opaque backgrounds, hiding the parts outside the cut line) so they can overlap and save media.

Drawing

Create perfectly horizontal and vertical lines, inc. to any angle with an auto-join feature. Ideal for making fold lines and developing geometric shapes.

Curve & Shaping Tools

Bezier curves are easy to draw and to edit on the fly because the curve itself is completely contained within the convex hull of its control points. This means the curve can be manipulated intuitively to easily create almost any shape!

Replaces any section of curve (seamlessly replaces curve section with smoother section).

Import/Export/Publish

Import the most popular raster (image) formats including .bmp, .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .psd, .raw, .rle, .tga and .tiff and Export .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, and .tiff.

Import the most popular vector based formats including .ai, .dxf, .emf, .eps, .hpgl, .pdf, .plt, .ps, .psd, .pdoc, .vClip, .vLogo, .wmf.

1. New import PDF now allows you to quickly assign cutting tools by color (Cut Contour, Fold Contours, etc) and 2. to bring in the artwork relative to the page it was designed on.

Ability to drag and drop more image files into the design at a single time.

Export the most popular file formats: ai, .bmp, .dxf, .eps, .jpg, .pdf, .png, and .svg.

Export additional vector and raster based formats including .plt and .tiff.

Publish your artwork in CMYK - ready for Offset Printing in either .tiff or .pdf.

Arrange Tools

Auto circular array to any radius and quantity of a selected item.

Auto duplication of selected item(s) by number.

Vinyl Cutting

Interactive Contour Cutting Wizard that supports Auto-Mark (Auto-Detect) Cutters and Laser Pointer Cutters to quickly guide you to Print and Cut on 2 Devices or to Print, Laminate and then Cut on the same device. Easily calibrate your laser pointer and work with rotated artwork.

New preset cutting tools/contours, ability to create perforation cuts and fold lines.

Supports all major and popular ARMS (laser sensor) and CCD (camera fitted) cutters for the most accurate of contour cutting.

Cut Document Tools

On-screen dimensions in any units that automatically update with each Print Job.

Cutfile editing tools to improve layout and cutting including Automatic and Manual Align Marks, Chopping Guide with Overlap, Lift Marks, Speed-Weed, Group/Ungroup, Break Apart/Combine, Rotation and Duplicate.

Automated feature that operates with Optimal Packing to repeat Print Jobs and only RIP a single instance of the repeated file.

Dynamic preview of Cutfiles in relation to the Plotter/Vinyl Cutter (WYSIWYG).

Automatically positions separate Print Jobs together into a Single Print Queue ready to be immediately Ripped or printed out to minimize media waste.

Takes selected colors and merges these into one color for cutting.

Trim Options (Trim from: Left, Right, Top and Bottom) to Position your Artwork precisely where you want it to cut out on the vinyl.

Suite of tools to manage overwide cut files and create an Overlap to deal with shrinking on site.

Places a Cutline where artwork has been overlapped to improve weeding.

Rotates the Cutfiles for much easier layout of long artwork.

Vinyl Spooler

Cut/Plot to multiple plotters at the same time over multiple ports and/or an Ethernet connection.

Ability to detect CCD marks for artwork designed in another program where supported by the cutter driver.

Ability to scan barcodes and QR codes in the vinyl spooler (depending on driver support).

Automatic option to generate dashed (perforated) cutting lines in the vinyl spooler.

Ability to create double fold lines (for sharper fold lines).

Up to 16x cutting passes (useful for laser cutters to cut wood or thicker materials).

Ability to output ARMS artwork as either RGB/CMYK, TIF/TIFF or JPG/JPEG.

Save, Hold, Resend and Archive Cut Files. Force contours to be cut either in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction.

Vinyl Cutters

Supports Ethernet (Network), Printer (LPT) and USB Ports.

Support for QR and dual QR Codes which allows loading the sheets upside down or normally, where supported by the cutter driver.

Vinyl Cutter Tools

Prevents the Plotter/Vinyl Cutter from Rounding-off Corners and stopping short of completing the cut. Ideal for small text and intricate designs.