by gardencat » October 19th, 2012, 10:28 pm
This is my first time posting here in a long while.
I got my Cougar about a year and a half ago. I bought it because I was sick of all the stuff going on with PC and because I owned MTC and heard good things about the Cougar there. Then, shortly after I got it, the atmosphere at the MTC forums changed and Andy and Ann signed a deal to supply MTC with the KNK machines and suddenly the Black Cat machine owners seemed to be less welcome on the board and questions about updates to the drivers for the Cougar would just be ignored and go unanswered.
Luckily, I got my machine up and running and the people on this forum helped me figure some things out and calibrate for print and cut etc. At that point, there was talk about a new software, designed especially for the BC machines, coming out of the UK, in the near future so I decided just to do what I already knew how to do, and wait for the new software before really trying to expand my use of my Cougar. Also lots of things came up in RL that kept me busy and not having as much time to do die cutting projects.
Now I am trying to get back into the die-cutting more and came looking to see what is happening but I can't find any mention of the new Blackcat specific software and I see in this thread that people with MTC are worried about switching files to SCAL ( which I don't have yet).
So I am wondering; if I want to start cutting more and making my own files what do I do? I can still use the MTC I have at least for now but do I need to buy SCAL too, or invest in Sign cut? Is the Blackcat software that was in the works now a dead project?
I do own Creative Suites 6 which includes Illustrator so (once I learn more of that) I can build SVG files in that but I will still need a program to cut them with I guess.
Can anyone give me an update on the state of programming to drive the Cougars?