This feature is included in All Editions of Silhouette Studio
Sketch designs are sometimes intended to be drawn directly onto the project surface.
However, you can alternately sketch the design onto its own material, and then create an accompanying background frame for your sketch design. This can give your project added dimension.
Sketch Design Frames
To create a frame for a sketch design:
- Open your sketch design
- Open the Trace panel
- Click on 'Select Trace Area' and draw around the contour of the sketch design
- Increase the 'Threshold' until the outer lines of the design are yellow
- Select 'Trace Outer Edge'
- Click in the center of your sketch design and move it away from the newly traced outer line
- Click on the newly traced outer line to select it
- Open the Offset panel (on the right-hand toolbar)
- Click on the 'Offset' option
- Adjust the 'Distance' to your liking
- Click 'Apply'
You should now have:
A) the original sketch design
B) an outer cut line (used to cut out the sketch design after it has been drawn)
C) an offset frame (used to cut out a different material as a background)
NOTE: For ease of reference, you may want to set each design part as a different line color
Once you have all of the design components ready:
- Select 'A' (the original sketch) and 'C' (the outer cut line) together
- Click on the 'Center' icon (top dynamic toolbar)
NOTE: This action will align 'A' (sketch design) with 'C' (outer cut line)
- Send the sketch design lines to your Silhouette machine to be drawn with a pen
IMPORTANT: Do not touch or unload your material once the sketch job is complete - Send the outer cut line to your Silhouette machine to be cut out with a blade
- Unload your job and remove the cut-out sketched design
- Load a new material color into the Silhouette cutting machine for the offset frame
- Send the offset frame to your Silhouette machine to be cut out with a blade
- Unload your job and remove the cut-out frame
- Assemble the cut-out sketch design onto the offset frame
