Those of you who are cutting living hinges, how are you setting those up?

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Those of you who are cutting living hinges, how are you setting those up? Knowing that a stock controller likes to cut a 2-point line twice, is there a way to overcome that, other than replacing the controller for a better one?

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I haven’t done it, but I would do it like this
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzi2h1k_udXwRUw4R2ZBemlXeE0/view?usp=sharing

Obviously, that is an exaggerated version to show the setup, not actual dimensions. The punched out white areas in the black rectangle would need to be much smaller in size for the real design file.

This way it only cuts one 1 side of the line. You have to use shapes with no borders & solid black fill. I have tried super tiny borders & it still cuts twice with the stock controller. Only way that works for me for a single cut is to use solid black fill & no border.

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Well yeah, I know that part, but I don’t want to end up with holes in the hinges. I want just a single cut and done. I’ll play with it and see what I can come up with.

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Not sure of your setup, but if you set the line thickness to .01mm in CorelLaser it will only cut once.

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I don’t use CorelLaser, it won’t run on my system. So I’m using Illustrator to create my files and importing them in LaserDRW, which sucks too as it only imports bitmaps, not vectors. I need to upgrade this thing pronto.