While holding, drag the text box down towards the image until it snaps into the shape of your image. Move your cursor over this circle (your cursor will change to a tiny crosshair and arrow), then click and hold your mouse. This will bring the neon green box back, and you’ll also notice the little black and white circle with crosshairs on the left of the box. Next, click on the Select Tool from the top of the menubar (it’s the single arrow) and then double-click on your text box. That means if you want to weld and also curve your text, hold off on everything you just learned about welding! You can weld after curving, but not before.
#WORD ART IN SILHOUETTE STUDIO HOW TO#
Note: I know I just went over how to weld, but curving text to a path can only be done with editable, NON-WELDED text. To start, either draw a shape using any of the drawing tools from the left menubar, or you can even open up a shape from your library or by importing it.įor this example, I used the Draw an Ellipse Tool and drew an oval. Because let’s face it, always having everything in a straight line gets boring! This will group everything into one piece, which you can see by the single large bounding box.Īnother way to spice up a text design is by curving text to a path. If you’d like to keep everything together, just select all the pieces then right-click and choose Group, or go to “Object > Group”. Like I mentioned, welding a font causes any overlapping pieces to become connected, and once welded, all the separate pieces get boxed individually. That way if I ever want to use that same font in another project or if someone asks for the information, I’ve got a handy note waiting! Tip: Since welding strips all the font information, I often create a separate text box with the font’s name and move it off to the side of my cutting mat. This is why you see the individual boxes forming around the separate pieces, as well as why the Text Style Window defaults back to Arial. It basically gets turned from a text box into an image. One super important thing to point out with welding though: once you weld a word, it can no longer be edited in any way. Notice how the overlapping bits between the a and y, the t and o, and the g and o become connected and smooth….they’re now welded! You can see what welding does in the simple animation below. To weld a word or phrase, just select your text box, then you can either right click and select “Weld,” or from the top menu bar, go to “Object > Modify > Weld”. Otherwise all those overlapping parts will be cut too….not good. When you weld, you connect them so everything cuts or sketches appropriately. This is especially helpful when using fonts that are cursive and have overlapping pieces. is how to weld (you can also weld images too). One of the most basic functions to know when designing projects with text that I use all. Once you start typing, the text box with be a bright neon green and your text will show up in white with a red outline. You can change the font, styling, alignment, size, character and line spacing, as well as kerning…lots of fun things to play around with! Here are allllll the options available in the Text Style Window. (On a side note, I’m using Silhouette Studio Business Edition, so my menus may look a little different from yours if you’re running a different edition of the software, such as the Basic or Designer Editions.) This window can also be accessed anytime by selecting the capital A option from the top menu bar. Once you’ve done that, you’ll notice that the Text Style Window opens up on the right side of your screen. Next, click anywhere on your cutting mat to create a text box. To add text to your design in Silhouette Studio, first click on the Text Tool option located on the left menu bar (it’s the capital A with a bracket next to it).
How To Use the Text Tool in Silhouette Studio Adding Textįirst things first: you gotta know just how to add text before you can jazz it up, amiright? And the Text Tool packs quite a punch! Yep, she’s little but she’s mighty, and while you might *think* you know all there is to know about it, allow me to provide you with the 411 on this beauty.
One of the things that I love about it is how user-friendly its software, Silhouette Studio, is. It’s just so darn powerful and easy to use! I mean, my Cameo is involved in nearly all my crafty creations. In the words of every 90’s Valley Girl, like totally, for sure. Howdy! You all know I’m completely obsessed with my Silhouette Cameo.
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