On 5/16/2012 at 11:48 PM, Guest Invisibra.net said:
I would say if you are going to get a Graphtec fc8000- 100 or 130, just get the 160 and handle ANYTHING. You are already decent bucks into a plotter that will cut 48", so just get the 60, and handle any width of film available. (Till they produce 72" wide film...) A lot of fenders are really close to 60" from door to headlight, or maybe just a bit smaller. It's nice nesting 2 fenders crosswise on a 60" roll, & hardly wasting any film at all. On the other hand, cutting a 32" tall fender on a 36" roll of film, you are probably going to throw away a lot more film, even nesting the mirrors, and headlights into the wheel opening space. Just my thoughts.
The cool thing about the Suntek software, is that it shows what percentage of the film you are going to use. So if you spin and adjust the pieces around with your nesting, and you take it from 60% film used to 80%, it's pretty sweet knowing you got the extra 20% usage for free.
I had a Graphtec FC8000-160, but sold it because I never used it.
But, now with the affordable suntek software, I am using the plotter more and more. (I bought a Graphtec FC 7000-160 for cheap) I'll take a fender pattern, blow it up by 2" in every direction, and still bulk it on the car, but I was able to nest things really tight, for very little film waste.
Pro-tect mobile came by to cut a pattern or two on my plotter. Which one do you like working with more Thom?
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Hello would you recommend the fc9000 series?