Comments on: My first plot

By: Alison Cummins

Alison Cummins — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:38:46 +0000

Send me a pattern? Yes, that would be ducky! And peachy! Yay!

By: kathleen

kathleen — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:06:35 +0000

ha ha, you know me. I had to fiddle with it some more for whatever trivial reason and then I got distracted by something else and forgot all about it. That’s my problem, I solve a tricky engineering problem (what really interests and motivates me) and once done, lose interest and go on to the next one. They would make nice holiday gifts, I could send you one.

By: Alison Cummins

Alison Cummins — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:19:50 +0000

Did you ever get this pattern ready for sale?

By: Yoram

Yoram — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:49:04 +0000

Hi Alan,

OptiTex can send a direct plot/cut file to to any Gerber or Lectra machines. through a set of converters, OptiTex can also read all Lectra/Gerber files.

By: Nicole Marie

Nicole Marie — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:57:44 +0000

Personaly I always hated gerber, dont know why. But I have to admit it is a good way to get exact and very compleat patterns. I give u props K. for taking the leap and learning, its not an easy thing to do, ( it took me 3 CAD classes to finally master the thing myself), I’d love to see more pic.s of the pattern and finished product.

By: Birgitte Mutrux

Birgitte Mutrux — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:03:23 +0000

Hip hip Hurray! I’m so happy for you Kathleen! Can’t wait to see a video. With sound I hope- I’m such a geek, I know it’ll make my heart tremble!

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:28:54 +0000

Hi Kathleen, Thanks for the clarification. We don’t do the pattern work, grading or marking; just the plotting. A funny story: we ended up buying the premium maintenance plan ($205/month) because we had two $600 repair bills in three months. I guess a family of mice liked to nest in the electrical panel and short out the circuit boards. The Gerber salesman was right however, there are no moving parts to fail with the inkjet plotter.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:37:49 +0000

Hi Alan, Optitex is the CAD software so I doubt it’s compatible with Gerber/Lectra . The plotter is an Ioline. Ioline basically has the reputation of being the workhorse plotter in the industry. Run forever, hard to break and easy to fix if they do. I think Ioline can help you configure their plotter to run under Gerber/Lectra but the latter two won’t of course, because they want you to buy their proprietary unit.

By: Grace

Grace — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:38:36 +0000

Ooh, can I test the pattern?

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:32:21 +0000

When I moved my factory from the US to the Dominican Republic we got very tired of sending markers by FEDEX. We bought a Gerber infinty inkjet 72″ plotter and its been pretty reliable. Let us know how you make out with the Optiplex. Is the optiplex compatible with both Gerber and Lectra?