日曜日, 3月 11, 2012

Creating bookmarks with Silhouette Cameo

As the Silhouette Cameo is here, I wrote a Java program to draw regular convex polygons and cut out shapes from paper.  The photo shows the final product, a bookmark.  You can put any of your design into 'production'.  With Silhouette Cameo, you get the final products right away. 



The Studio software detects the outline of shapes automatically.  The procedure would be as follows:

  1. Print out shapes with your own software or draw it with Studio.
  2. Select Object|Trace... from the menu. 
          

            
    1. Click the "Select Trace Area" button.
            
    2. Select the area of the figure.
            
    3. Select "Trace Outer Edge".
            
    4. The red line appears surrounding the image.
            
    5. Delete the original image.
            
    6. Edit the outline.  Typically you would want to "Edit Points" from the left column of the window.
            
    7. When the editing is done, click the Silhouette icon from the tool menu.
            
    8. Place the paper on the cutting mat and set it to the machine.
            
    9. Click "Cut" button when everything is ready.
           


Send any shapes to Silhouette and find designs of your choice.  Try cutting shapes and figure out balances and sizes that fit your needs.  

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