In a command prompt with admin privileges just type "pip install pyserial" to use the Python installer to grab the necessary files and install them. Now on the latest version of InkScape you can drive the cutter directly from there without thee need for any additional software.Īll you have to do is install PySerial so that InkScape can talk to the USB ports. So I did a bit of looking around to see if I could run the cutter through Inkscape - the last time I looked when I first set it up on Windows 7 you couldn't.
So I bought a Dell PC with Windows 10 and that's when I realised I didn't have the CD with the drivers or the cutting software. I had a second hand JK721 happily running on Windows 7 for a couple of years until recently when the hard drive failed. Just in case anyone else is having problems setting up a GoldCut on Windows 10 I thought I'd post my experience here. Thanks for reading this and hope someone can help me out before the plotter becomes a clothes rack, umbrella stand or bird feeder! So if anyone has any guidance as to drivers/free software to help me get an image from gimp to inkscape (ive not used that yet either but saw a video that said you can do vector files?) I would be really greatful for your help? I found this link () to get the drivers/how to guide etc but when I try to load them up it just flicks back in between load driver for GoldCut JK series and cant get any further? Not sure if anyone else is using this model type with windows 10 64bit if you are then if you could point me to new drivers it would be much appreciated :) So that's about it really but small acorns and all that you never know this could be a new hobby that me and my little lad can get into and god knows what we could churn out! :)
I have no experience with plotters but looking at it there doesn't seem to be a lot of things to tweak on it but I said something similar about an ikea cabinet I was building last week and now its a spice rack!! Im using gimp to prep images and was looking at using inkscape to create the vector image for cutting and been helped with a link to SCAL for putting that through the plotter so should be OK from there once I get it installed on windows 10. Hi guys, I'll be straight and honest i found this forum while looking for some drivers that would work with a plotter I've just inherited (GoldCut jk1351 - not sure how old but its bloody big) and im finding it hard to get it recognized on windows 10 64bit (this is where i think the problem may lie) laptop up to inkscape or gimp if possible? Its not for anything major just to run some stencils off that I want to do for a school project for my sons class and if I get any good probably some for my sons walls and wardrobes to paint :)