Cutting beyond the parameters

[Kim]

If you want to get one 12" scalloped edge you could move your paper up from the dotted line on the long of a 12x24 mat and cut.

[wreed06]

Does that work? SCAL's perimeter is the dotted line. When I look at the view mat, anything outside the dotted line will not cut.

[pastda3]

Actually, you did answer my question. I just made it more difficult than it needed to be. Thanks again.

[dcpyatt]

I understood what you are trying to do... you want to lope off part of the image by dragging off the page to the uncutable area... yes, I have done that... I had a multicolor cut that I was doing in vinyl and rather than make two images (the right was red and the left was blue and white) I took the image, rotated it 180 degrees and forced the color I wasn't cutting off the edge of the virtual mat so that SCAL only could see what I wanted to cut in the color I was working on at the time, then I rotated it back around and forced the other part off of the page so that I could cut the remaining colors.

For what it's worth... I've been trying to talk Todd into experimenting with making it possible to cut longer than the 24" mat currently allows... I need to cut some slightly longer pieces in vinyl and can't piece them together. I'd be happy even if it was a one-off patch that allowed me to do it locked in at a current version like 1.011b and then run another copy of SCAL for keeping current updates with the traditional mat sizes. I'm sure I could come up with thin styrene sheets or something to use as a cutting mat.

[pastda3]

dcp - I thought I had forced it off the mat, but it cut on the dashed line on 3 sides and it cut the scalloped edge. All I wanted was one side to be a 12" scalloped edge.

[ScrappyGal]

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[wreed06]

I'm pretty sure this isn't a problem with the software, but with the Cricut machine itself. It just won't cut the full 12".

Actually,the 11 1/2" size is not a problem at all. It is how SCAL works. In my attachment, I made the word ABCD. I aligned the red box outline so that the top and left side butted to the solid blue lines on the mat. Then, I clicked on the magnifying glass. Only the red part (inside the dotted lines) will cut. The gray part (outside the dotted lines) will not print. This is the way SCAL designed their software, it is not a bug and the Cricut machine is not doing anything wrong. It is what SCAL uses for a margin.

[pastda3]

Too bad it doesn't use the full 12".

[wreed06]

Agreed. Someone did make the request in the wishlist forum, but it didn't seem to go anywhere.

[amcolley]

I think she is saying that even if the scallop is *within* the dotted line, it will still trim the rest of your paper to the smaller size along the other three edges.

But what about this? What if instead of building a square with a scalloped edge, you build the *negative* of the scallop? Like this:



Then you could cut that negative out of the top of the paper only. Would that work?