WHAT ARE THE PROS AND CONS OF FLEXI SIGN PRO 10 USING WINDOWS7?
MY OLD MACHINE WENT BELLIE UP WITH AN OLD CASMATE PRO. THE PLOTTER WORKS GREAT. BOUGHT THE ABOVE UPDATE WITH A NEW SYSTEM.
ANY COMMENTS OR TIPS WOULD BE APPRECIATED
THANKS
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FLEXI SIGN
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Re: FLEXI SIGN
I have been on flexisign pro8.6 for two years now. I love it it has always done whatever I have asked of it. I only use it for vector based operations designing and cutting in conjunction with Illustrator.
I write now on a topic that I have only experiential knowledge. As I understand it flexi is unique in its ability to edit shapes and objects even after special functions such as welding has been applied. You do not have to resort to undoing then rebuilding.
Flexi's auto trace is stellar and many warps are impressive.
Flexi also has a fantastic feature called design central. These are pallets or fields that appear whith all of the functions that you may logically apply at any given phase of designing. select an object or shap and right click and a menu of logical operational choices will allso appear. This in combination with Design Central will get you through about any question a rookie to the program might have unti you are acquainted.
Its price is not out of line with its usefulness. I would borrow the money if I had to, in order to get it.
I have been told that Sign Warehouse sells a generic version of Flexi for less. I have no knowledge of its performance.
Again if the features that I am describing are common to most high end signmaking programs I am simply ignorant, I jumped up to Flexi after using a very basic program that did not have most of these features. I am no longer frustrated.
If you wish more info I sat through an introduction to Flexi taught by Mark Rugan, He is known as America's Flexi-guru. He had a website called www.givemehelp.com
I am assuming that it is still up. He also had a few basic Flexi videos on youtube.
I write now on a topic that I have only experiential knowledge. As I understand it flexi is unique in its ability to edit shapes and objects even after special functions such as welding has been applied. You do not have to resort to undoing then rebuilding.
Flexi's auto trace is stellar and many warps are impressive.
Flexi also has a fantastic feature called design central. These are pallets or fields that appear whith all of the functions that you may logically apply at any given phase of designing. select an object or shap and right click and a menu of logical operational choices will allso appear. This in combination with Design Central will get you through about any question a rookie to the program might have unti you are acquainted.
Its price is not out of line with its usefulness. I would borrow the money if I had to, in order to get it.
I have been told that Sign Warehouse sells a generic version of Flexi for less. I have no knowledge of its performance.
Again if the features that I am describing are common to most high end signmaking programs I am simply ignorant, I jumped up to Flexi after using a very basic program that did not have most of these features. I am no longer frustrated.
If you wish more info I sat through an introduction to Flexi taught by Mark Rugan, He is known as America's Flexi-guru. He had a website called www.givemehelp.com
I am assuming that it is still up. He also had a few basic Flexi videos on youtube.
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