Hello, mates!
Immediately I’m going to share two methods to make use of the twin instrument holder on the Silhouette CAMEO 3 (or the Silhouette Curio) for sketching and slicing. Sketch & lower is once you sketch a design with a pen, then lower it out with a blade.
On all Silhouette fashions previous to the CAMEO 3 and Curio, you needed to sketch, then swap out the pen for the blade, then change your settings, then lower. The twin carriage lets you save steps and time. I’m sharing two strategies for sketch & lower beneath.
(To see the CAMEO 3 in motion, watch my video on the finish of this publish.)
Methodology #1 for Sketch & Reduce
1- Select your sketch design. These directions assume you may have a sketched design with an offset to be lower. I’m utilizing Haunted Home Sketch, which is design ID #66046 from the Silhouette Design Retailer. We’re solely going to make use of one sketch-pen colour.
2- Go to the Reduce Settings Window. Be sure that the Commonplace Reduce Mode is chosen.
3- It’s a good suggestion to at all times sketch earlier than slicing so there’s no probability of the paper sliding round throughout sketching, so we’re going to:
a. Place the sketch pen within the left/pink tool-holder 1
b. Place an everyday ratchet blade (set for the paper sort) in proper/blue tool-holder 2
Notice: When you solely personal a CAMEO 3 it solely comes with the Auto Blade, so that you’ll have to buy a ratchet blade or comply with Methodology #2, beneath.
4- Choose all the sketch portion of the design and click on on Instrument 1 (as a result of in Commonplace Reduce Mode, instrument 1 will at all times lower first).
5- Select Silhouette Sketch Pen because the Materials Kind (Instrument 1).
6- The daring preview traces needs to be displaying pink for the sketch traces.
7- Now choose simply the offset line you want to lower and click on on Instrument 2.
8- Select Cardstock (or no matter paper you’re sketching and slicing on) because the Materials Kind (Instrument 2).
9- Be sure that the Ratchet Blade is displaying because the Blade Kind.
10- The daring preview traces needs to be displaying blue for the lower traces.
Able to load the paper and sketch & lower!
Methodology #2 for Sketch & Reduce (Most well-liked)
1- Select your sketch design. These directions assume you may have a sketched design with an offset to be lower. I’m utilizing Haunted Home Sketch, which is design ID #66046 from the Silhouette Design Retailer. We’re solely going to make use of one sketch-pen colour.
2- Within the Line Colour Window, choose and colour your traces primarily based on whether or not you need them to be sketched or lower. I normally select a sketch line colour primarily based on the pen colour I need to use.
3- Group (proper click on – Group) the sketch traces collectively, if they aren’t already grouped.
4- Depart the pink line as-is for the offset to be lower with a blade.
5- Group the offset traces collectively, if there are a number of offsets.
6- Be sure that your sketch design is organized appropriately inside the offset on the work web page. (Typically this is so simple as choosing the whole design, then within the Align Window selecting “Heart.”)
7- Go to the Reduce Settings Window and select Superior Reduce Mode.
8- Select Line Colour for the Reduce Order.
9- For the black colour (displaying the black sq.):
a. Click on on the blue instrument circle to inform the CAMEO you need to sketch the black traces with instrument 2.
b. Select Silhouette Sketch Pen for the Materials Kind. (Now is an effective time to place your sketch pen in the precise/blue tool-holder 2.)
c. If it isn’t the highest line for Reduce Order, click on and drag that line so it’s above the pink colour. That units your order of slicing (top-down). Sketch earlier than slicing.
10- For the pink line colour (pink sq.):
a. Be sure that the pink circle for Instrument 1 is chosen.
b. Select Cardstock for the Materials Kind.
c. Choose the Automated Blade because the Blade Kind. (You possibly can additionally use a ratchet blade—simply make sure that the blade sort in Studio matches the precise blade you’re utilizing.)
Now you’re able to load the paper and sketch & lower.
This second methodology could seem extra complicated, however I actually discover it provides me essentially the most management, and it makes a number of sense to my mind. 🙂
Right here’s a brief recap for Methodology #2:
- Set line colours for various capabilities you need carried out in your design
- Select which instrument you need to use for every line colour
- Put them within the order you need lower/sketched
I hope this helps you attempt a few completely different strategies to sketch & lower, both with the CAMEO 3 or the Curio. You possibly can determine which works greatest for you. Listed here are my closing outcomes. One is recent from the CAMEO 3, and the opposite is coloured with some Tombow Twin Brush pens (affiliate hyperlink).
Watch Sketch & Reduce in Motion!
Sketch & Reduce with the CAMEO 3 Twin Instrument Holder from Kelly Wayment on Vimeo.
Thanks for visiting, and I’ll have extra CAMEO 3 info for you quickly!
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