Welding in Silhouette Studio Beyond Fonts

 Welding

Increasing your skills with the welding tool in Silhouette Studio increases your ability to personalize your handmade cards. This lesson brings to you a simple combine 'weld' of two separate files both downloaded through The Silhouette Design Store.

You can watch the YouTube video here.

Let's start with the basics necessary for this lesson.

• On the top we see the complete card size and the z-fold sections because we need those for reference when we combine the crown to the donut.
• Next on the bottom of the screen we have the front of the Z-fold with the donut.
• On the left side we have all layers of the donut so we can check the complete layout.
• Also to the left we have the crown scaled pretty close to needed size.

By combining the layers of our donut and placing the front layer over our base layer we see exactly how our pieces will be glued together after cutting.

Now we are ready to make modifications.

For complete details remember you can watch the video here.

When the crown is where you want it on the design you'll choose your offset panel and select offset, I chose .050 as this is big enough to include the little bits of the crown and still stay within my card base perimeters. 

Then you will choose your crown outline hold your shift key and select your bottom donut and right click and select weld. Make sure you then select group to save your fold lines.

These are the basic steps to most personalization on your handmade cards, or cake top shakers in your Silhouette Studio Software.

Thanks for stopping by the TweakingCorner and we hope to continue to bring you short quick lessons you can use on whatever your project is on your workspace. Happy Tweaking!