Cut Lines From Vinyl To Edge For Easy Weed

Cut with the carrier side down and the adhesive side up when working with heat transfer vinyl the shiny side of the material always goes face down for cutting.

Cut lines from vinyl to edge for easy weed.

You can add these in the design stage as extra cut lines that go from your design to the edge of the vinyl. Cut a box around each word or letter so that you can work on pulling up one section of vinyl at a time. You will then need to increase your cutting pressure to correct this issue. The extra cut lines help to separate the design from the material you want to save for future projects and makes it easier to find and weed your designs on the cutting mat.

Those vinyls are gorgeous but it is impossible to see the cut lines. Weeding means to remove any of the vinyl that you don t want including any insides of the letters. Clean cut no jagged edges easy weeding for cricut silhouette sd all vinyl cutting machines finding well designed clean cutting fonts is no easy task. Before you unload the vinyl from your machine take your weeding tool and try to weed a piece.

Adjust your force with a test cut. If it comes up easily you re good to unload and continue weeding. Even when you re paying good money for quality fonts you can run acoss some that the font designer did not take the time to clean which means ugly jagged edges for you. Or after your design is machine cut you can take an x acto knife and hand cut weeding lines around your lettering.

On the silhouette cut page scroll down to the cut settings. Load your vinyl into your cutting machine. I used to shy away from the pretty glitter and patterned vinyl because i always ripped my design when i was weeding it. Use a weeding box.

Some people prefer to add a weeding box around their image when they cut. To use the weeding feature select the object you want to add a weeding border and lines to and then choose weeding from under the effects menu. Using the cricut brightpad is by far the easiest way to weed vinyl that s either super sticky or hard to see like glitter vinyls or holographic vinyl. Speed 1 force 12 and passes 2.

Make sure you have the right type of vinyl selected and hit send. They then pull up the box around the image and continue to weed from there. If it is not necessarily pulling up the design but still difficult to weed you may have cut too deep.