Just did a test cut of this image with CorelLASER.
I decided to test if I can make the separate cut layers different colours & whether Corel will recognise them & convert to black, or if it will do something odd. So far, it’s still cutting, but it seems that it has no problem recognising the two colours & they are both converted to black in the cut dialog window.
This is useful to me, as sometimes I am using multiple layers & it gets difficult to tell which is which & select the one I want when they are all the same colour. Thought it may come in handy to someone else.
I’ve used red,blue green and black on different layers without any issues so far.
@Tony_Sobczak Yeah seems to be good. I had just been using lots of black layers. Quite confusing. Much better to be able to colour them. I don’t know why I didn’t even think about this or test this til now.
Yep, I have used different colors for different cuts, like internal cutout, and it seems to handle them fine as long as the lines are selected. Really handy as I tend to use a few different colours when designing in Illustrator, CorelLASER is growing on me, even though it has its evil quirks like to many notifications and a whited out ‘File Edit…’ menu…a small price to pay, and less traumatic experiance then I was expecting.
@Pigeon_FX Oh you have the whited out File Edit menu issue too. Not a big drama, but confused me to begin with. I thought the toolbar was switched off haha.
I was doing some cutting a few hours ago & it seems that white borders on objects cut also. Didn’t expect that & was not what I was intending. But yeah, CorelLaser is decent once you get the hang of it. However, for these particular images that I was working with, as I changed them to vector engraves (by creating many 0.5mm wide rectangles that I intersected with the actual image in AI) there were loooooots of individual objects. This caused it to lag about 5-10 minutes everytime I clicked “Cut” to open the dialog window. Running MacBook Pro with 16gb ram, so it’s not a ram issue (was only 20% used) & was chewing about 30-40% cpu when waiting for the dialog to finally open. So it seems to have some limitations on the amount of objects in a cut-layer before you are going to crash it.
Thats good to know about white boarders, could see that catching me out and confusing the hell out of me if I didn’t know why!
