This is not going to work well for detailed designs with lots of holes because the inner pieces are not connected to the edge and will not stay with the rest of the design. The next import option for 2D designs is Stencil. Looking back at the Jewelry box, we can see the design protrudes from the lid instead. You can choose which look you like better for your design. This same flower design imported as a Stencil Box is basically the same, except the design is inset in the Stencil Box. Silhouette 3D™ will print these two pieces separately for you. Let’s look at the flower again in the two jewelry-box options. When we open the flower design as Jewelry Box, you’ll see it automatically converts to a box base and a lid.
Keep in mind that it has to stay within the red print border and should not be so tiny that it loses all its detail. Group each heart back to its base to fuse them back together. You can delete pieces you don’t want to print, or you’ll have the option to choose which you want to print, one at a time, when you go to the 3D Print tab. Group and Ungroup in Silhouette 3D™ is more like a welding and separation process for 3D purposes. Since we’ve ungrouped these, they’ve become separated from their base, which we don’t want for a cookie cutter.
We will search the Library to find them, double-click to open, and choose the cookie cutter option. These have opened fused together, which might be nice to cut a variety of heart sizes quickly.īut on this particular design, we just want one heart. Ungroup to separate the pieces. That looks a little too thin and complex, so we are going to choose a different design for a cookie cutter. Let’s look at some more choices for importing 2D designs. Double click on this same flower and choose Cookie Cutter. Or use the zoom options at the top of the screen. If your mouse has a scroll bar, you can use that to zoom in and out. You’ll find that the Undo button is helpful as you experiment. You can change the view of your design by clicking and dragging on this cube in the upper right corner, by right clicking and dragging with your mouse, or by clicking on a face of the cube or these arrows for the view you want.Īll designs on the workpage can be resized, moved, rotated, and thickness changed. If we open a flower design as an Extrusion by clicking once on the Extrusion choice, the design on the page looks like the thumbnail image. Importing as Extrusion is mostly a what-you-see-is-what-you-get option. You may need to do some 3D test prints to see which designs work best. To find a 2D design, either double click on the folders to open them and navigate to the design you want, or use the search option to type in a key word. To open a design, double-click on it.ĢD designs bring up a pop-up box for you to select from six different import (or extrusion) options, which are Extrusion, Cookie Cutter, Jewelry Box, Stencil Box, Stencil, and Wax Pendant. Most 2D designs will not work with all six options, so try some out to see what works and what doesn’t. In Silhouette 3D™, you can turn 2D designs into select 3D objects. Some designs will work better than others, so just try them out and see.
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The 25 free designs that download to your library when you register your Alta go into a folder called Free with Machine.īut as you can see, the designs you’ve purchased or moved into the cloud, along with any subfolders you may have created in Silhouette Studio®, are all here in Silhouette 3D™. The Library can be viewed in grid mode or in list mode, whichever you prefer.ģD designs you purchase specifically for your Alta from the Silhouette Design Store go into a Library folder called 3D. Your Library consists of all the designs in your Cloud Library, which is shared with your Silhouette Studio® Cloud Library. This tutorial will cover using 2-dimensional, or 2D, content from your Silhouette Library. You can even open designs from third-party sources that are in a compatible file format, such as. This can be text, preset 3D shapes, or designs from your Silhouette Library. When you open Silhouette 3D™, you’ll see a workspace with a virtual build area, ready to hold designs for 3D printing.
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