Having Trouble Importing Large Cut File into OptiScout (Colex)

[bpp]

I’m trying to import a cut file into OptiScout to cut on my Colex. The file shows up on screen, but it never fully loads — the mouse just keeps spinning and it doesn’t finish bringing it in.

The file contains around 900 small decals. If I break it into smaller files of 100–200 decals, it eventually loads (though it takes a few minutes).

Has anyone run into this issue or found a workaround for large batch imports? Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

 

[keith10999]

Does the file have art work? It is best to only open the die lines with reg marks.

 

[bpp]

There is no artwork, just a lot of nodes maybe. I left it spinning overnight and it eventually opened (after I already reprinted it in smaller batches )

 

[JBurton]

Are these squares, circles, or some wonky custom shape?
I'd think you could export them in 9 batches, using the same marks, and just run each batch individually, but if your rip is placing your marks, this would be a complicated nightmare.
I wonder how firesprint handles this, I'm sure they handle such orders, and since they aren't fans of just dealing with halfbaked options, surely they've found a way to automate this.
If it were just a bunch of squares, I'd say you could replace the 4 sides with 4 cuts, that cut across the whole sheet. So for like a 4x4 grid, you'd need 10 straight lines to cut them out, vs 16 lines making up individual squares.
This reminds me of that one time I tried to generate a vector file that was 1200 dpi of black squares with white voids, and quickly realized my beefy setup was getting crippled by the bajillion nodes in the file.

 

[myront]

... a vector file that was 1200 dpi of black squares...

do you mean you had 1200dpi raster squares that you were trying to convert to vector?
Vector files have no dpi.

 

[JBurton]

Vector files have no dpi.

I misspoke. I made a checkerboard, using vector squares, to make a file that was 1200dpi at scale. I only got about 2/3 of the square filled in before it just kept crashing. For whatever reason I didn't use step and repeat.
After I wrote this I went and found the art, exported it, and tried to print it. That's when I realized my copy of onyx only goes to 600dpi, a realization I must have had previously and just forgotten.

 

[myront]

I misspoke. I made a checkerboard, using vector squares, to make a file that was 1200dpi at scale. I only got about 2/3 of the square filled in before it just kept crashing. For whatever reason I didn't use step and repeat.
After I wrote this I went and found the art, exported it, and tried to print it. That's when I realized my copy of onyx only goes to 600dpi, a realization I must have had previously and just forgotten.

Why not just leave it as vector? Why the need for 1200dpi or 600, for that matter?