Dynamic top toolbar to give you quick access to commonly-used tools.Easier navigation panel for sending projects to your Silhouette.Better multitasking, with detachable, floating panels.New theme options, including a darker theme to prevent eye strain.Silhouette Studio® has gotten a face-lift! Below are some of the highlights of the new interface. While it did take countless hours of Beta testing to get to this point, the extra wait was worth it! Let’s take a look under the hood and see what makes this major update to Silhouette Studio® so special! New Look and Feel That’s how to use the Line Style panel and work with lines in Silhouette Studio®.We are very proud to announce the release of Silhouette Studio® Version 4.0. If your lines are only slightly thickened and you’ve chosen Cut Edge for unfilled shapes or for line segments that are not closed, the blade will cut those lines very close together, which may not be desirable, so that’s something to keep in mind. Notice that with unfilled shapes that it will cut on either side of the thick line, and with filled shapes it will just cut around the outside edge of the line. When we choose Cut Edge, that’s when the blade will cut around the edge of each line. Go to the Send panel, and you’ll see with all of these thick lines that have their lines set to Cut, that the machine will cut (or score or sketch) only in the midpoint of the line. Now let’s look at something you should be aware of when you’re working with thick lines. The last choice on this panel is to “Print Lines of Selected Shapes.” Line colors do not print unless you increase the line thickness above 0.0, or check this box while those shapes are selected to get your 0.0-thickness lines to print. Or you can choose to place the thick outline behind the shape. The default is to put the outline in front of the filled shape. Position can be seen on filled shapes, like the star. There’s no end cap, an added square end cap, or a rounded end cap. Rounded corners is the default, but you can also choose flat corners or sharp corners.Įnd caps can be seen on thick lines. You’ll only see the difference on thick lines with corners, like the rectangle and the star. Now we will thicken these lines even more before moving on to the next three options, which are for working with thick lines. Line Style and Line Thickness can also be found on the Quick-access Toolbar. Style lets you choose between a solid line and various dashed lines, which can be used as perforations for cutting, or for decorative edges for printing or even drawing borders with sketch pens. We will start at 1.0 just so you can see the lines better. Drag the thickness slider up or use the input box to increase the line thickness. The default for cut files from the design store or for freehand-drawn shapes is 0.0. In this panel, you can adjust a line’s thickness. Now let’s go to the Line Style tab, which is the first tab in this panel. Let’s select all of these shapes on the page and give them a black line color so that the next steps will be easy to see. However, in the panel you can also increase the Transparency of a line color or click “Advanced Options” to pick a custom color. These colors are the same in the Quick-access Toolbar and in the panel. You can choose line colors, a blank line color, or use the eyedropper to pick a line color from any color on the page. Click on the drop-down arrow next to this rectangle that looks like a red outline. You can also access most of these line color options in the Quick-access Toolbar. This is where you can change the line color of a selected design. First, let’s look at the second tab of the Line Style Panel for “Line Color.” It looks like stacked lines of varying colors and thickness. Watch what happens to each of these types of designs as we make changes to their line styles. The star is filled with a color, but the others are unfilled. We have on the page a rectangle, an oval, a star, and a line. It looks like three horizontal lines of varying patterns and thickness. You can find the Line Style panel along the right-hand side of the work space. This is where you can adjust line properties for your designs. In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the Line Style panel.
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