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ROBOCUT(1) User Commands ROBOCUT(1)

robocut - is used with cutting plotters.

The `Robocut' program plots or cuts SVG files on a Craft Robo or Silhouette SD or most likely any other customer grade Graphtec cutting plotter.

robocut [OPTIONS...] [File]

Show summary of options.
Show version information and copyright details.
Show all the parameters entered and the defaults.

Stop sort the objects from the SVG before plotting.
Sort the objects by bounding box, good for letters. This will cut out the inside first and than the outside.
Shows the cutting dialogue after start.
Select the media. See drop down box.
The speed between 1 and 33.
The pressure between 1 and 10.
Move three times back and forward to create a track.
Define the margin on top in mm.
Define the margin right in mm.

Use registration marks and find the marks automatically.
Use registration marks but set the knife manually on top the round mark.
Specify the length in mm between the the two horizontal marks.
Specify the length in mm between the the two vertical marks.
Specify the length in mm between the the edge of the paper and the first horizontal mark.
Specify the length in mm between the the edge of the paper and the first vertical mark.

Try this program with other usb hardware on your own risk. You need to convert hex to dec.
May also work with other hardware, try usb-devices program to scan your computer.

QT SVG only supports the SVG 1.2 Tiny standard and this has a limited SVG support. For example multiline text is something that is no supported by Robocut, however you can export your text to a path or just create each line separate.

Written by Tim Hutt <tdhutt@gmail.com> and Markus Schulz <schulz@alpharesearch.de>

Report bugs to https://bugs.launchpad.net/robocut/+filebug.

Copyright © 2015
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

September 2017 robocut 1.0.11