Secret to Revealing Grid Box Numbers in Silhouette Studio

Well, my days of counting grid boxes in Silhouette Studio are over!!

The grid boxes on the virtual mat are super helpful so you can correctly place material on the cutting mat in the same boxes where your design is in Silhouette Studio.

Granted, they could make them a little bigger...but they're there!!

So if you're working in Silhouette Studio and you don't have the grid lines revealed this is what you're work space looks like. Just plain ol' white.

When it's time for lining things up you can reveal the grid lines by sliding over the Reveal bar in the Page Set Up panel to reveal them on the cutting mat.

The boxes correlate perfectly with Silhouette cutting mat...each square on both the mat and the virtual mat is one square inch.

And if you zoom in and look really really closely you can see those boxes along the top and left side are all numbered too. You may just need a microscope or a magnifying glass to see them!  I mean any chance you can spare a larger font, SA?  ;)


 
Now here's where the grid box numbers come in handy....
 If you have a project that requires you cut several different colors of the same type of material you can cut them all at once, but you have to properly line up the material on your mat.   The material has to be covering the exact same squares as the design in Studio or you'll end up missing the material when you cut.

These itty bitty numbers make it much faster and eliminate the need to keep counting and double checking that the boxes are properly matched up when placing your material on the mat!

Day made!

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