Cut Lines From Vinyl To Edge For Easy Weed

Make sure you have the right type of vinyl selected and hit send.

Cut lines from vinyl to edge for easy weed.

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. 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. On the silhouette cut page scroll down to the cut settings. If it comes up easily you re good to unload and continue weeding.

Weeding means to remove any of the vinyl that you don t want including any insides of the letters. Before you unload the vinyl from your machine take your weeding tool and try to weed a piece. After the design is cut it is time to weed the vinyl. The pro version of sure cuts a lot has a feature to add a weeding border and lines to help remove the excess vinyl from in between and around your design.

Cut a box around each word or letter so that you can work on pulling up one section of vinyl at a time. Adjust your force with a test cut. If it is not necessarily pulling up the design but still difficult to weed you may have cut too deep. 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.

Those vinyls are gorgeous but it is impossible to see the cut lines. Use a weeding box. They then pull up the box around the image and continue to weed from there. You will then need to increase your cutting pressure to correct this issue.

I used to shy away from the pretty glitter and patterned vinyl because i always ripped my design when i was weeding it. This will push the edges of the cut vinyl down into the liner making it more difficult to weed. Some people prefer to add a weeding box around their image when they cut. 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.

You can add these in the design stage as extra cut lines that go from your design to the edge of the vinyl. Speed 1 force 12 and passes 2. Or after your design is machine cut you can take an x acto knife and hand cut weeding lines around your lettering.