How to use Pepakura Viewer with Craft ROBO

Procedure of cutting developments using CraftROBO

Open a pdo file

Open a PDO file (Pepakura Designer's file). Please notice that the size of a sheet is supported by CraftROBO. You can see the size used for the pdo file by selecting [File]-[Document Info]. Please notice that the sheet can not be changed with this viewer. You should set the size of the sheet with Pepakura Designer.

Registration mark configuration

Select [Configuration]-[Registration-mark Configuration] or the button

. Then a dialog appears. If you need the registration-marks, check the [Print registration-marks]. Please do not change the positions of the mark from the default values if you do not have special reasons.

Confirm the positions of the registration-marks with Print Preview

Print Preview

Confirm the followings by seeing prit preview.

The areas of regstration-mark (red squares in the following figure) and patterns are not overlapping.
The patterns do not run off the edge os the cutting area (a square surrounded by red line in the following figure).

Note that the red square line and boxes are added for reference, not displayed on the real application.

Resize the pattern

If you found that the pattern is too large at previewing, select [Configuration]-[Scale down for cut] or press the button

. Then the following dialog appears.

You can specify the scale (ex, 90%) and change the size of the pattern. Please preview again and confirm the size is OK.

Print pattern

Print using common printer same as Pepakura Viewer.

Set a sheet of paper

Set the printed paper on a Craft ROBO. Please take care for the arrignment of the paper. Set the paper for the direction shown as an orange arrow in the above image.

Select the page for cut

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After placing the paper to the Craft ROBO, select [File]-[Cut Developments] menu, or press the

button. A dialog appears for selecting the number. Select the number of the page.

Settings of Craft ROBO

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Then a dialog shown as the above image appears. Select the Craft ROBO for the perinter [Name]. Select Paper Size that is same with [File]-[Document Info]. Press the [Property] button and the configurate the Craft ROBO.

Configuration of Craft ROBO

Open [Graphtec Craft ROBO Properties] dialog by pushing [Properties...] button, then do setting for [Dashed Line Pattern Settings]. The results would be nice by setting about 0.5mm for Cut Line Segment] and [Uncut Line Segment].

Push [OK] and then back to [Print Setup] dialog. Then press [OK] again.

Configuration of Craft ROBO Controller

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Configure on [Craft ROBO Controller]. [Design Orientation] should be [Portrait].

After the setting up, press [Cut] button.

Start to cut

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After Craft ROBO finished reading the registration marks, the above dialog appears. Press the [OK].

Notice that cutting is done by one page by one. If you would cut multiple pages, repeat the above operations.