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Draw Something! How to use the Silhouette drawing tools — Lesson 1: Draw a line

October 7, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

line tools in silhouette studio

Buying designs from the Silhouette Design Store is great, but there are also plenty of tools in Silhouette Studio to help you create your own designs. Today, I'm starting a new series on using the Drawing Tools in Silhouette Studio to get you going … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: create, draw, line, preferences

Tuesday quick tip: How to strikethrough text

September 21, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

My youngest boy recently got engaged. Hurrah! I was very excited to welcome his sweet future wife to the family. He had a very elaborate plan that worked almost to perfection, culminating in a celebratory dinner with her parents who came in as a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: htv, line, shirt, strikethrough, Text

Tuesday quick tip: How to change the default fill and line color

May 25, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

When you create a shape or text in Silhouette Studio, by default it has a red line color and no fill color. Let's say you know that filled shapes are easier to grab with your mouse, so you always work with filled shapes as I recommend. Or maybe you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: color, default, Fill, line, preferences

Tricks to working with SVG files

October 21, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

One of the great things about using Silhouette machines is the Silhouette Studio software. It is amazing, especially since it's free and updates are always free. And if you choose to upgrade to a higher level of the software, it's relatively … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: cut line, cut style, Designer Edition, line, modify, preferences, resize, svg, thickness, vector

What in the world??? When the shape won’t let you change its fill color

September 15, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I LOVE LOVE LOVE mystery/detective shows, particularly British ones. And I really enjoy doing puzzles and playing games where I have to solve a problem. Lots of folks do. But very few of us like to have to solve a mystery when working with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software, Tips Tagged With: color, detach lines, Fill, line, modify, open path

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

Dispelling Text Myths in Silhouette Studio: 30 Misconceptions about words, letters and fonts (part 5)

August 29, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

text edit in silhouette

Have you been learning lots of new things about working with text? I hope so! (If you haven't read about Text Myths #1-20, start here). Today we're going to learn about how to text edit in smarter ways by busting 5 more myths. We'll focus on how and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: bold, character spacing, edit, font, italic, kerning, line, line spacing, resize, Text, text edit, underline, word

Point Editing: taming all those little black dots (Lesson 6 Part 3)

June 22, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette point editing open paths

Now that we’re on Lesson 6, are you becoming an expert at Point Editing? (If you have stumbled onto this lesson and haven’t gone through the previous ones, start here.) In Part 2 of this lesson, I showed you how to break and join paths to fix broken … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: break path, edit points, join path, line, open paths, path, point editing, pop up, red dots, score, Sketch, slit

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #6 — Cut Order

March 4, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Today's lesson is about another way to add flexibility in your cut job when you use the advanced cut mode -- cut order. Cut order is the sequence in which the machine cuts the shapes in your project. When you cut by line color, fill color or layer, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: action, action by, color, cut order, cut settings, Fill, layer, line, pauses, send, Sketch, Sketch pen

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

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