Hi guys!
Today I am so excited to be sharing with you this little mini tutorial the commands for Design Space. When you are new to the Cricut world, learning the software can be the most difficult part. However, after today you will learn how to manipulate images as you wish. Without further ado let’s get started.
Flatten: Have you saw the flatten button on your toolbar but didn’t know what it was for? You’ll have to wonder no more. When you flatten an image, you are taking multiple layers and converting it to a single image. This is used if you want to do a print and cut. This makes life so much easier when you are making decals, stickers, ect. This will give you the different colors that you would like without it cutting out every since piece by color. Recently I used this on printable vinyl to make a sticker for a cup that I was epoxying. It worked like a charm!
Attach: When you attach something you are combining different layers. They will stay in their relative positions and move a group. If you resize, then it will resize evenly as one piece though there may be different elements. You may wonder then how this is different from a group. When you group things together it will do the same thing. The difference comes when you send your project to the mat. If it is attached it will stay exactly as you have it. However, if it is set to group, the software will rearrange it on the mat to save space. If you want to have one piece cut exactly as you have it then attach is your tool. If you want to change something you can always tap the button again to unattach it.
Weld: Weld will take and merge together two objects where they overlap. An important thing about welding is there is no undo button. You can only undo it if you tap the “Undo” button right after doing it. If you decide later down the line that you want to do something different it will be too late. I love to use the weld tool when using a script font. A lot of times even after adjusting the letter spacing the word doesn’t look right. I can then ungroup the words fix the ones I need to then weld the word back together. This way the overlapping part of the letter will not be cut out of the next one.
Slice: Lastly, we are going to talk about slicing. This is probably the tool that I use most often. There is so much that you can use it for. If you want to cut text out of a shape, you use the slice, if you want to cut one shape out of another, you slice. The slice option will only appear after you select 2 layers. Please note that you can only slice 2 layers at a time. You can select 2 layers either by dragging a box over the two layers or selecting one layer holding the ctrl key on your keyboard then selecting the other layer.
Well, that wraps it up for today! Thank you for taking the time to give this a read through. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to comment down below. Until next time have a craftabulous day!
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