Double Cuts

[gabagoo]

Just caught my Summa cutting a print twice. Every so often I catch it doing this, so I opened the file we ran and I am deleting the contour cut expecting to see a duplicate but nothing there. I even tried uncompounding, separating the contour cut, but there seems to be no duplicate cut lines...what gives?

 

[DL Signs]

Are you using a stroked line, or full shape file for the cut path? Using lines with a stroke, sometimes the stroke gets expanded and reads as two cut lines. I've had that issue at least once with every cutter/ software I've ever used, they'll just do it out of the blue occasionally, no rhyme or reason. I usually use a shape file with no stroke for cuts to avoid that issue. Even had a problem with that, one file recently had a .1 stroke that I didn't realize was there, it expanded and compounded with the shape and cut twice.

 

[gabagoo]

No stroke lines...but even if there were I did uncompound the cutline to see if I could separate it into 2 pieces but no go. One of life's mysteries

 

[Johnny Best]

One of Life's mysteries is who shot Liberty Valance, not Doublecut.

 

[Gino]

What software are you creating it in and what are you using for a rip ?? Evidently, someone or some short cut is turned on and you don't know about it for some reason. Basically these machines do what they are told and somewhere along the line you repeat this mistake, if it is happening from time to time as you said.

 

[Gino]

One of Life's mysteries is who shot Liberty Valance, not Doublecut.

 

[Johnny Best]

Gino knows who shot Liberty Valance. He’s a smart guy.

 

[signheremd]

I have usually found this to happen when you have multiple objects with cuts grouped in separate clusters. The system sees all contour cuts as on one layer, but grouping objects and having more than one group seems to lead the file to process as having a double cut on some things. We get this the most when we design in Illustrator and then open the file in Flexi. Sometimes I have to Ungroup, Move or Remove Contour Cuts, and then Ungroup again to find the hidden cut.

 

[Boudica]

Gino knows who shot Liberty Valance. He’s a smart guy.

I don't even know who Liberty Valance is.

 

[Gino]

He's long dead, so don't worry about it.