Summacut freakout: hardware or software?

[uranium]

I'm a newbie who's done a lot of lurking here. Just set up my first plotter, a Summacut D60 with Signcut Pro. As you can see, the plotter started to lose its preciseness a bit just before going completely mad and ruining the job. I'm hoping the photo holds a clue to what's really happening here. Does this look like a static electricity problem, a Signcut glitch? Any thoughts would be appreciated!

 

[ChicagoGraphics]

I had that happened to me years ago on a different cutter but if I recall it had something to do in the settings, like border box something like that. Maybe check your settings and see if there isin't some box that shouldn't be checked.

 

[uranium]

No boxes, I checked that out. Just text. The line you see is the glitch. Blade suddenly pulled across and then cut a big line back through the entire job. Just before the glitch, the cuts became a little...off, then POW!

 

[S'N'S]

I don't use Signcut Pro, but on my last plotter & software it done a similar thing and was the software settings.
Have you had a look here http://www.signcutpro.com/Plotters/setup-a-summacut-plotter-with-signcut.html

 

[uranium]

Yeah, went carefully through all those steps when I set up the machine initially. It's only happened on panels with lots of text, so I started wondering about static buildup or somehow overloading the cutter's tiny brain with vector info.

 

[S'N'S]

I notice a line between each letter, have you selected a speed weed feature, if so try cutting without using it.

 

[sinetist]

Are the letter shapes grouped? I've noticed SignCutPro often doesn't respond well to things in groups. Try ungrouping everything if they're grouped.