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Planning and Executing Large Projects: Phase 3 — Sizing, Tweaking and Organizing

November 21, 2019 By Cindy Eckhoff

This is part 3 of our series on how to do super large projects with your Silhouette. If you haven’t read the first 2 lessons, you’ll want to start here. This time, I’m going to show you how to make your design full size, use Subtract and Subtract All … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: layers, locking, modify, organizing, subtract, subtract all

Planning and executing large projects: Phase 2 — Designing with the Layer tool

June 25, 2019 By Cindy Eckhoff

This is the second lesson in my series on how to do very large projects using your Silhouette machine. You can find Phase 1 on setting up the file here. In today’s lesson, I’ll show you how I added my design elements and used the Layer feature … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: Designer Edition, detach lines, large, layer, layers, mock up, mockup, modify, subtract, vinyl

Planning and executing large projects: Phase 1 — Planning and Set-up

April 24, 2019 By Cindy Eckhoff

I’ve been working on a VERY large project lately — a forest of trees and animals for the children’s wing at our church. We’re going up 10 feet on the wall and it’s 45 feet wide. Plus we’re working around the entrance doors. How do you do  something … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: large, layers, locking, planning, wall

Cut Doctor: Lesson 13 — Advanced Cut Settings

January 14, 2019 By Cindy Eckhoff

advanced settings

I’ll bet that if you I asked you to diagram the entire DNA sequence, most of us couldn’t do it. Do you know what hemochromatosis is and why that’s important to your health? It’s not that we aren’t intelligent — it’s just that it’s advanced knowledge … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: advanced settings, cut by layer, cut doctor, cut settings, cutting without mat, feed, layers, restore default materials, return to origin, roller, sorting

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

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: Basic Membership 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

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