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[Laser cut and engrave,Laser welding / cleaning,Blade cut,Screen printing,Foil transfer,Inkjet printing,DTF Printing,Pen drawing,Other] xTool Studio Layers Template and Illustrator Swatches (including CC Shared Library) — Project made with xTool F2 Ultra UV machine for Laser cut and engrave.

xTool Studio Layers Template and Illustrator Swatches (including CC Shared Library)

Instruction

xToolStudioLayerTemplate_v1_0

.xcs

Application scenario

Laser processing、Laser welding / cleaning、Blade cut、Screen printing、Foil transfer、Inkjet printing、DTF、Pen drawing、Other

Machine & module

xTool F2 Ultra UV

Material used

All

1075

Information

      xTool Studio Template with matching Illustrator Swatches and CC Library grouped by processing types.

Instruction

Step1

Motivation

xTool Studio 1.5 expanded the total number of available layers including the specific hex colors, so I needed some Illustrator swatches to match the defaults.

Solution

Create a swatch for each of the default xTool Studio processing types using the provided hex colors.
Map those colors to the processing types (Score, Engrave, Cut) that made sense to me
Create a matching template in xTool Studio grouped by processing type
Add all of these groups to my CC library.

Files

Included in this project:
- xTool Studio (.xcs) file with the following:
  - Layer Placeholders (hidden Group with Output disabled) containing one object for each of the default xTool studio layer colors. This group is the value of the template. Without it, the layers default back to their hex color names.
  - Layer Notes (Text with Output disabled) explaining how xTool handles colored strokes and fills for layer and processing type assignments along with the current limitations of using the layer template for importing graphics - in short, this template cannot be used for that yet. But, it does work well to automatically organize your artwork so that all you have to do is set your processing settings to each layer.
Available via link:
- Adobe Creative Cloud Library (change to View by group) (https://www.adobe.com/files/libraries/urn:aaid:sc:US:9b7f2484-fa9a-4c76-b77b-78928cbc952d?libraryVersion=1) containing the following:
  - Group with all of the xTool Studio default colors and layer numbers
  - Groups for each of the three processing types matching the xTool Studio Template
Available in specific xTool related Facebook groups or by request:
- Illustrator Swatch Exchange (.ase) file containing the default and processing type swatch groups for direct import using the swatch panel in Illustrator. The CC Library link should provide a way to import those groups as swatches into your own CC account which would then be accessible via the Illustrator library panel. I would share a link to that the .ase files directly, but that is not supported for Adobe CC file storage or Atomm.
- Facebook Groups:
  - xTool Official Group