First off I love this idea. The work you guys are doing with it absolutely rocks. I'm no artist, I'm a tech and tool guy. This will allow me to rely on tech and tools rather than my weak artsy skills. I love it. So as a fun little test I want to mount a Roland vynil cutter to my 3d printer and see if I can make the magic happen. It's possible. Question is, is it more trouble than it's worth or a good option for small stencils?

I have a couple questions about blades. On amazon the blades come in 30,45& 60 degree. What's the difference? Other than the angle
How long do blades last? I'm restoring an F-14 pf (looking for scans btw ) and I really don't want to reorder. Takes waayyyy too long from here.

I'm getting decent with 123D design and Fusion360 but Im totally unfamiliar with photo editing software of any kind. I need to learn. Enter YouTube university. This set of videos has been really helpful learning how to make decals from old artwork. It's a bit slow but really detailed and both programs he uses are free.

I ordered a set yesterday. They get good reviews and they are cheap. I'll post when I test them.

How do you like the cb09? I started playing with mine a few days ago. So far so good. I'm new to the cameo so I have little to go on but it does cut better than the stock blade, imo.
Best part is the price. I got 15 blades and the holder for $20. It's a win.

I thought I'd be able to use the trace feature also but that is not the case. I've never been able to get the trace function to work well on pics or scans. The lines always need a lot of cleaning up. For me it's much quicker to trace with the pen tool. I was redrawing them in inkscape but I was having trouble with scaling and distortion so now I just redraw in silhouette studio.

This is accurate and has worked well for me a couple times. However when I import a scan into inkscape with it set use the file size I get a scan that's 3x the size it should be. Once you get it scaled back down, redraw it and send it to silhouette to only then have to scale it by 25% again. This always causes problems for me. Not sure why inkscape won't import my scans the correct size. Until I figure it out I'll keep doing what works. It's a shame because inkscape is a much better drawing tool than silhouette.

I'll have to try this. I don't have photoshop though. Anyone know of a free program that will turn into a high quality jpeg? What is high quality? 600dpi? 1200?

Up until today I've been using an Evolution brand stencil material. It's the only brand I can find here in Panama. It was working fairly well, I thought. Today I received a roll of oracal 813 and it is so much better. I'm using a CB09 60 degree blade and getting really detailed cuts. Can't wait to try the Gerbermask.

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Awesome! I'm going to try that now.