How to EASILY Connect Edit Points and Close a Shape in Silhouette Studio

If you've ever tried to fill a Silhouette Studio design and it won't fill, it's likely you have a break in the edit points indicated by a red dot in the path (a path is just a line). 

The problem is sometimes the edit points A) won't appear 2) just won't connect. Fortunately, there is a really easy fix!

Silhouette Cutting Design or Font Slow? Try This Trick!

If you're Silhouette cutting machine is cutting really slowly there could be an easy and fast fix.

One of the biggest reasons the Silhouette CAMEO and Portraits cut slow is due to an excessive amount of edit points in your font or design.

How to Use Edit Points to Design Custom Shapes in Silhouette Studio (Free Cut File)

I get lots of questions about creating custom shapes and designs in Silhouette Studio - but the truth is you can do a whole lot with a simple line and edit points. 

 

New Silhouette School contributor Cat from Pocketful of Poises is here today (let's all welcome, Cat!) to share with us her tips on how to create shapes.  Cat is focusing on the leaf shape, but her design process in Silhouette Studio can be applied to a lot of designs.

Move Multiple Edit Points In a Jif: Silhouette Tutorial

Sometimes you need to modify a design from the edit point level. Edit points are the building blocks of designs. They give you a lot of creative freedom...but they can also be kinda pesky to work with if a design has a lot of them - which most designs do.

Fortunately I recently discovered an edit points shortcut that will have you editing and moving points faster than ever before.

How to Trace Multi-Colored Layered Images in Silhouette Studio

Tracing is perhaps one of the biggest challenges for Silhouette users.  Tracing in Silhouette Studio is one of those things that takes practice because every design and every trace will be different. There's no exact formula for making the perfect trace that works across the board. That's especially the case with tracing multi-colored layered designs.

One thing to keep in mind with tracing layered images is you need to combine a lot of Silhouette Studio tools and build on the basics that you know about compound paths, fill colors, grouping and ungroup, edit points and the Modify tools to successfully trace a layered image.  For this reason - please know this should be considered an advanced Silhouette tutorial.

How to Put a Selection Box Around Multiple Edit Points in Silhouette Studio FAST!

Did you know it's possible to select multiple edit points in Silhouette Studio at the same time and then delete or modify them in some way - whether it's moving or deleting?! OMG this totally just changed  designing in Silhouette Studio for me!