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

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)

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

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