Again you have to buy this and again for the amateur it does the job. Then I send the outline dxf file to Serif Drawplu 6. I first bought it about 15 years ago and paid for all the upgrades since. You have to buy it but it does not cost a lot and is very good.
I must admit the software is not the best, even the with the designer version, but there are ways and means.įirstly I draw up accurately on a proper CAD programme, DeltaCAD. I acquired one of these machine as my Christmas Present. I am intending to have another go at this, but don't hold out much hope. I would still prefer to use the CutWizard plugin for Inkscape, if I could persuade the German software writers to provide for cutting by line colour as well as by line fill.
I emailed Silhouette support to check that my assessment was correct and to ask whether they have plans to enable cutting by line colour after selecting a layer, but only received the response that my suggestion (!) had been passed to the software department to consider.īTW a new update of the Studio software was posted on the Silhouette website on 5th January, but the website doesn't indicate what enhancements have been made to the program. Thus, DE does enable cutting files without the need to convert the SVG file to the DXF format for loading into Studio, with the issues that this can bring.
studio file, you can then reload the SVG file and delete layers leaving only another one which needs cutting and then repeat the cutting by line colour. The solution is load the completed SVG file into DE and then to delete all but one layer and then to cut that layer by line colour, allowing different parameters to be set for the different colours.
Alternatively, if selecting to cut by line colour, all lines of a selected colour will be cut on all layers. While DE will open an Inkscape SVG file, if selecting to cut by layers, it will cut all the lines in the selected layer, which is no help if some of them are intended to be scored only. In post 887 above, I indicated that it seems that that Studio Designer Edition (DE) can only cut by layers or by colour and this seems to be the case.