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Cut Doctor: Lesson 22 — Problems with incomplete cuts or at the end of the cut

March 8, 2019 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Some diseases you get as a baby, some as an adult, some as a senior. Basically, you can get sick throughout your entire life. In the same way, you can run into cutting woes at any point in the process. Today, we're going to focus on problems that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Machines, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: auto save, blade, bluetooth, cancel, cut, cut doctor, feed, firmware, incomplete, mat, packet size, pause, queue, recovered, usb

Cut Doctor: Lesson 2 — Actions

October 22, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette cut setting simple action

In our first appointment in the Cut Doctor series, we talked about purchasing materials and choosing the right one in the Send area. I also showed you how to create and save your own custom settings. You can find that lesson here. Now we're ready for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting Tagged With: action, cut, cut doctor, cut setting, cut settings, emboss, etch, score, Sketch, stipple

Cut Doctor: Lesson 1 — Materials

October 18, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

One of the most frustrating things with using a Silhouette machine is when you have a great design and materials, but can't seem to get a good cut with them. Maybe it's that the cut doesn't go all the way through your material. Or perhaps it's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Materials Tagged With: custom setting, cut, cut doctor, cut settings, material, materials, user created settings

Cutting Checklist

September 14, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

This post is part of my Checklists series. Each post in the series is a set of brief reminders to help you remember the sequence of steps to use as you work on a project. With each checklist, I provide links to more information about the topics. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Tips Tagged With: action, advance cut mode, blade, checklist, color, cut, cut style, cutting, Fill, force, line, line segment overcut, mat, material, passes, pause, resume, settings, simple cut mode, speed

Pattern fill pizzazz: 7 ways to put your own graphic into any shape (misc. info)

May 4, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette pattern fill

We've learned the 7 different ways to put a raster image into any shape, but we aren't done yet. (To start with lesson #1 in this series, go here.) There are some critical tidbits of info you'll need to know in order to use these methods successfully … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: cut, cut style, Fill, folder, import, library, merging, no cut, pattern, pattern fill, raster

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #8 — How Text or Object on Path affect cut style

March 9, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette curve word

You may not know this, but in Silhouette Studio you can make words go around a shape. That's called Text on Path. New in version 4, you can also take a shape and use Object on Path to create duplicates of that shape around the contours of another … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: clip art, control point, curve text, curve word, cut, cut preview, cut settings, cut view, jpg, no cut, object on path, photo, photograph, png, point, raster, replicate, send, Text, text on path, vector

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #7 — Using Pauses

March 7, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette pause

One great thing about using advanced cut mode (so any mode other than Action by: Simple) is that you can add pauses between each color row. This allows you to change the tool during the cut. You start the job and any time you have added a pause, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: action by, advanced, cut, cut settings, cut style, line color, pause, pauses, Sketch

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #5 — Action by: Line, Fill or Layer

March 2, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette cut by fill color

Now that you know the basics of the Send area, it's time to get into advanced options with Action by: Line, Fill or Layer (Advanced Cut Mode in version 3). In these modes, you choose your cut settings for each shape based on its line color, its fill … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: action, action by, auto weld, color, Compound Path, cut, cut preview, cut settings, cut view, Designer Edition, Fill, Fill Color, gradient, grouping, layer, layers, line, line color, no cut, pattern, send, Sketch, Sketch pen, tool, weld

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #3 — Material, Action and tool choices in Action by: Simple

February 28, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette cut settings

So far in this series, we've looked at where to start and what Cut Mode and Cut Style mean.) To start with lesson #1 in this series, go here.) Today, we're going to talk more about choosing and changing your cut settings in Action by: Simple (simple … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: action, autoblade, blade, cut, cut settings, emboss, etch, etching, material, pen, ratchet blade, revert, score, Sketch, stipple, stippling, tool

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #2 — Simple mode and cut style

February 27, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette cut settings style

The very first thing you'll look at in the settings of the version 4 Send area -- so that right side -- is the Cut Mode. It's not actually called this, but that's how the manual describes it and the name it used in version 3. This is in the row with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: action, cut, cut edge, cut mode, cut preview, cut style, cut view, no cut, simple

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #1 — Where to start

February 26, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette send cut settings

Are you ever overwhelmed when you look at all the options in the version 4 Send area of the Silhouette Studio software? It can be intimidating, especially for a beginner. I've created this series of tutorials to give you ALL the information you need. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: cut, cut preview, cut settings, cut view, send, send to silhouette, tool, tool holder, version 4

Successful Beginner Projects: #6 Snowman flat ornament

November 28, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

vinyl snowman

I hope you’ve gotten comfortable with cutting cardstock in our first 5 beginner projects. If you haven’t yet done those, I HIGHLY recommend it. You can find project #1 here. This set of 10 projects is designed to teach you in incremental steps and I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Materials, Projects Tagged With: beginner, cut, cut settings, transfer paper, transfer tape, vinyl, weed, weeding

Successful Beginner Projects: #4 Christmas Tree Gift Tag

November 10, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette tag

We’re going to create another gift tag today. I mean, I can never have too many Christmas gift tags in my house come holiday time ????. In this project, we’ll learn to draw another type of shape, use control points, resize disproportionately, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Materials, Projects Tagged With: Align, cardstock, christmas, Compound Path, control point, cut, cut edge, cut settings, gift, grouping, rounded rectangle, tag, transform

Test cut the smart way

October 10, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette cut settings

I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone say, "I just wasted a whole package/roll of (insert material name here) because it wasn't cutting all the way through" or "it was just ripping up my material." I always think to myself, "Why did you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting Tagged With: cut, cut settings, line segment overcut, test cut

Software Basics (version 4) — Lesson 14: Making your first cut

October 2, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Today is the day! If you’ve gone through all the Before You Begin and Software Basics lessons up to this point, you will be well-prepared to make your first cut. If you haven’t, I highly recommend checking out all those lesson for my best beginner … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Machines, Silhouette Studio Software, Tools and Accessories Tagged With: action, blade, cut, cut edge, cut settings, deep cut blade, fabric blade, force, line segment overcut, mat, material, no cut, premium blade, software basics, speed, tool, tool 1, tool 2

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