It’s been over a year since I visited the details of each software package available to drive a Silhouette cutter. There’s still no clear winner for everyone, because so much depends on what you want to do, how much learning curve you are willing to endure and how much you want to spend, not to mention personal preference.
Silhouette software options compared
With the popularity of the Cameo (and earlier SD model), and the introduction of premium software from Silhouette, there are lots of questions about which software is best.
Cursives for Diecutters
New owners of digital diecutters often ask what are the best fonts for welding (or “connecting” if they haven’t been indoctrinated into our odd vernacular yet). We may give a few suggestions but usually brush them off with something about personal preference. It turns out that there are some fonts that are inherently weld-friendly thanks to their attentive typographers.
Printable seamless patterns with Repper
Update: Repper appears to be down, not sure if its permanent. And I’m sharing 6 free patterns I created using the techniques in the video.
Cricut software comparison chart update
IMPORTANT UPDATE: As of March 14, 2011, MTC no longer supports Cricut. With new official releases of SureCutsALot and MakeTheCut finalized in the last few days, I have been busy updating my comparison chart.
MTC 3.0 beta solves print and cut
Update: MTC 3 is out of beta. Download MTC 3.2 to take advantage of these and many more features. I played around with the beta version of Make-The-Cut 3 last night and I am amazed at the results. 2 issues have been standing in the way for reliable print and cut on the Cricut.
Latest MTC version simplifies print and cut
Buried in the update notes for Make-the-Cut 2.3.0 was a feature to “take in to account” the DPI of imported files. I hoped this would simplify the print and cut process and did it ever!
SCAL and MTC both get major updates
Craftedge released on update of SureCutsALot that brings Mac users up to parity with their Windows counterparts and also adds such features as text on a path, open path cutting and line styles.
SCAL vs Make The Cut feature war continues
Both MTC and SCAL have released new versions over the last couple of days. Both of these programs now have most of the features we previously had to use Inkscape for!
Cricut software comparison
I have seen so many questions and there is so much information to slog through, that I put together a chart with as many relevant parameters as I could think of.