SILHOUETTE STUDIO DESIGNER EDITION CHANGE MAT UPGRADE
If you upgrade to Designer Edition or higher, you also get Rulers and Guides in the Grid Panel, which are covered in a different tutorial. If you’re in another panel and want to quickly turn your grid on or off, you can do this while no objects are selected and access it with a right click, or you can hit the hotkey G. If you want, you can change this to an Isometric grid, but most users opt to use the Square option.įinally, you can change the color, intensity, and grey scale of the grid lines to suit your personal preference. If we need more precision we can go to 8 or even 16 for 1/8 inches or 1/16 inches, respectively. You can leave your page size larger than the media you’re actually cutting, but be. Generally, you’ll choose your page size based on the material you put on your mat, whether that be letter-size paper, 12-inch-by-12-inch material, A4 paper, or something else. However, when using the Business Edition of the software, there is an additional option to change to the Media Layout View in order to maximize the efficiency of laying out your designs for cutting. The number of d ivisions will divide the spacing you specified, so if my spacing is set at 1 inch and I select 4 as the number of divisions, that will give me incremental marks at ¼ inch. The Page Setup panel is where you can set your page size and the mat you are using. Design View is basically what you see is what you get, and you can stick with that traditional view in all versions of Silhouette Studio®. However, we suggest not to start with a lot of lettering, since these are more difficult to transfer. We generally keep the Spacing at 1 inch to match the grid on the cutting mat, but this can be adjusted to suit your needs. Silhouette Studio Designer, first drawing, made on Creating a design with the Silhouette Studio Designer software, and then cutting it with the Silhouette Cameo is really easy. When you drag them, they’ll move by the exact increments you have set up with your Spacing and Divisions below. If you turn on the Snap to Grid option, you can draw your objects with precision at their starting and end points. This is an accurate representation of where they will be cut on your mat. If you’d like to see the grid, check the box “Show Grid.”ĭraw a few objects and move them around. In this panel, you can turn on a grid that overlays the page on your virtual mat. The Basic Grid options in Silhouette Studio® can be found in the second tab of the Page Setup panel.