I encourage you to experiment to find the ones that best fit YOUR needs. What I’ve shared here are my own personal settings and what I’ve found to be most helpful. I can’t think of any situation where this option would be useful to me but I’d love to hear from you if you disagree!Īs you can see, Silhouette Studio offers a multitude of preference settings but the tool options are by far the ones that have the most effect on my day-to-day use of the software. With “Convert thick lines to polygons” the detached line is separated into several distinct parts and each of these parts can be moved independently of all the others. This single element can then be moved independently of its original source. When choosing “Maintain thick lines as lines”, a thick line maintains its shape as one single element after being detached. The final two options determine how the software sees thick lines when they are detached from their original source by use of the Subtract/Subtract All/Knife/Eraser tools. You must be in Point Editing mode to view the Bezier control handles for a selected shape and the number of handles that are visible will be determined by the setting you choose in the Editing Tools preference. Any of these adjustments will alter the shape of the curve that contains the handle. The handle can be lengthened or shortened by moving the end nodes. If you’re curious, a Bezier (a French word that is pronounced “bezje”) control handle is a means of modifying a curve. It’s quite possible that you don’t even know they exist (and I mean no disrespect by that statement!). Even if you’re accustomed to modifying shapes in the software, it’s doubtful that the term “Bezier control handle” is part of your everyday language. ![]() These options are something I’ve never paid that much attention to and I find that they have very little effect on my use of Silhouette Studio. I’m going to be really honest with you here. I also prefer that each time I click on a shape it becomes the selected shape, so my “right-click” setting is “New Shape Becomes Selected”. Single Bounding Box for Multiple Shape Selection Individual Bounding Boxes for Multiple Shape Selection If you prefer to see the dimensions of each individual shape, select “Multiple Bounding Boxes”. Once I’ve selected multiple shapes, I prefer to see the dimensions of the group as a whole, so I’ve chosen “Single Bounding Box” in the options for “When Many Shapes Selected”. With this setting, you must draw a box around an entire shape before it becomes selected. If you’re still getting used to the click and drag method, or find that when you drag the mouse you’re picking up shapes you don’t intend to, you may want to choose the “Select shapes enclosed by drag box” option. ![]() I’ve had a lot of practice in Studio and can usually grab exactly what I want with one quick motion so I have chosen the “Select shapes touching drag box” option. Some Studio users like to hold down the SHIFT key while clicking to select multiple shapes, but I’m a drag box kind of girl! It’s much easier for me to “click and drag” to select one or more shapes. When using one of these, the tool will remain selected until I’m ready to move on and I manually choose the next action. For each of these tools, I’ve set my preference to “Continue _”. I find this to be true for freehand drawing, erasing, and using the zoom tool. There are some tools, however, that I often use several times in a row before moving on to another action. With this setting, once I’ve drawn a shape or used the knife tool, my mouse automatically returns to the selection tool. For these tools my preference is set to “Choose Select”. If I’m using the knife to slice a shape, my next action will probably not include slicing another shape. For instance, if I draw a rectangle it’s doubtful that my next action will be to draw another rectangle. This is usually the case for drawing shapes and slicing with the knife tool. For some tools, I prefer to be “one and done” every time I use them, meaning that I will generally use the tool only once before I switch to another action. Option 3: Click on the gear icon in the lower right hand corner of your screenįor each tool listed, there are two possible choices: “Choose Select” or “Continue _”. Option 1: Click on the Edit menu and choose “Preferences” from the dropdown menu Let’s begin by opening the Preferences menu. Note: All screenshots are from Silhouette Studio Version 4.1 ![]() Last week I showed you just how easy it is to change the display colors and today I’d like to tell you a little more about the tool options I find most helpful. Want to speed up and simplify your design workflow in Silhouette Studio? In addition to learning a few keyboard shortcuts, determining which preference settings work best for you will save you both time and frustration.
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