Ok I just got home from taking my girls to school and I finish helping the painters move their gear out of my kitchen and thank them for a beautiful job.

I sit down at my computer thinking that the paint fumes are going to kill the last remaining brain cells I have, when I notice that I have a few new emails.

Thinking again to myself (thinking to oneself is much better than talking to oneself) its just more damn SPAM. I open my mail to see something that says order tracking number. Again I think yeah but I must go in person to Brussels in some dodgey neighbor hood to pick up the million pounds. Then I see that a large payment from my wife has been made. Now I'm thinking what has she gotten up to this morning?

She bought me a PRINTER

No more cutting and scoring my models! I have a stack of stuff I have printed and have not assembled just because I don't want to take the time to cut and score a thousand pieces. Now I won't have to!!!

I will have to customize all my pdf's because I think it only excepts vector graphics. But I can change all that in either Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop I believe.



Happy Happy Happy

WOW! That's one special women alright!

If you manage to create a vector template for a set or two please let us know. I would love to pick one up but thinking about creating vector guides for all the sets gives me a migraine.

That is one sweet looking machine.

My wife contemplated getting one awhile back when her friend was working at Michael's crafts store. It definitely would cut down on trimming time.

Wow, Piper - congratulations.

My wife must be the second-best as she happily agreed to put this on the to-purchase list for later in spring. Oh, joy.

I guess we'll have to have WWG cutting template trading thread soon.

Holy crap, HP! That's freakin' cool!

I can't wait to hear how it goes.

It should arrive either today or tomorrow. I feel guilty. All I got her was some Philip’s IMAGEO LED Lamp. We are not allowed candles in our flat so I thought this will be a great gift for her. I think she trumped me

Well I bought the Pepakura CraftRobo View and I can cut out a full page (a packed page) of mech parts in a minute including setup.

The software is suppose to include Illustrator plugins but I have not tested that out today yet.



Today I will work on converting my pdf's to the CraftRobo

Jealous.






I can't wait for more updates!

Its going slow but thats because I'm still a bit new at this. It comes with an Illustrator Plugin but I my self am more acquainted with Photoshop then Illustrator. It is only my first day at it so give me a month of messing about before anything really good starts flowing out

It is a marvelous machine. I purchased the Pepakura CraftRobo Viewer for £9.00 and I can cut anything out in a matter of seconds. Its great!

I'm testing some gliders that a friend of mine made this morning. three pages and it cuts so fine that I pretty much just slipped each cockpit piece together like it was a puzzle. Really nice.

I have to reduce the fold lines a bit as it cuts little lines instead of scoring. Getting better at that. My first one (pictured above) the fold lines where so long it cut a few pieces off! Trial and error.

The manual for the Craft Robo is Rubbish.

Don't let me get too close... the drool will ruin the pages...


OK... So, how good was the tracking\registration between a print out and the final cutting?

Can you tell if there are sharpness issues with the blade? I find that I'm going through a rather large amount of Xacto blades when I cut stuff by hand.

I've got it down to where I can Vector a single pdf page really quickly, I'm still working on aligning it though. I will keep you guys informed.