Wall decals over size.. functionality to cut image into piece on artboard ?

1- I am doing wall decals, I am drawing a big tree (7 foot long). My vinyl roll size in 24 inches. Is there a functionality in Adobe Illustrator CS5.5 to split the image into section ready to cut ? My cutting software can do it but I want to do it in illustrator... is there a way ???
2- I am not able to find information on how illustrator can help me to place the objects on the artboard (with spaces between each objects) to maximize the vinyl space available without have to place each object by hand one by one.
Thanks Nancy

This kind of stuff (vinyl cutting project setup) was a pain to do in Illustrator prior to its finally (literally decades late to the game) acquiring the ability to have more than one page in a file. It's still a pain comparitive to Adobe's other vector drawing program (FreeHand), due to Illustrator's still-yet-to-appear ability to draw to user-defined scale.
This is how I routinely do it in FreeHand:
1. Draw the whole design at a comfortable scale (ex: 1"=1') on a convenient page size (ex: tabloid, so I can print it on a desktop printer). Define spot color Swatches for each vinyl.
2. When the design is done, add pages (one for each vinyl to be used) with either height or width the actual width of my vinyl (ex: 24"). Set ruler guides on each page to indicate what I consider a comfortable "maximum cut width" for the gripper/roller margin of my machine.
3. Select all elements of a single vinyl color, duplicate them to one of the full-size pages. Do this for each vinyl.
4. Scale the elements to actual size (ex: 1200%).
5. For an element too large for the maximum cut width, place a pair of ruler guides separated by the amount of desired overlap (ex: .25").
6. Duplicate the object in place. Use the Knife tool to slice the object along one of the guides. Delete the unwanted piece.
7. Similarly cut the remaining (original) copy along the other guide. Delete the unwanted piece.
8. Freely arrange (move and/or rotate) each of the pieces so as to maximize vinyl usage on each vinyl-specific page. Drag length of vinyl pages to fit final arrangement.
9. Export the full-size pages only.
10. Open the exports in my cutter driver software, and cut.
I leave it to you to translate the same basic operations to Illustrator. Some of the reasons I still find Illustrator inferior for this:
Still no support for user-defined ruler scales.
Very unreliable snaps behavior at zooms.
The infernal "Global" swatch designation.
Pages interface (like many things) needlessly cumbersome compared to FreeHand's. (Separate "Artboard mode" is tedious for arranging Artboards, making page-specific guides, snapping Artboards to grid and to each other.)
Inferior behaviors of Boolean path operations ("Pathfinders"). (Ex: converting compound paths to groups.)
Inferior cutting tools (Ex: releasing compound of compound paths; failure to handle open, unfilled paths.)
JET

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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:46:28 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Using selection tool to Cut image into pieces...
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