Now we have a whole group of nodes selected. You can either Shift-click each of the nodes you'd like to move or delete or simply click and drag your mouse just like you do when you selecting a design in Design Space. Just like in Studio, your design should be covered in grey nodes now: Once you have your svg open, you'll look for the Edit Nodes icon on the left side toolbar and click it. Instead of points, in Inkscape each of those dots in our dot-to-dot is called a node. Inkscape is a great option and it's free! There isn't a way to edit nodes in Design Space, so you will need to download software that will allow you to edit and save svg files. The more you play with them, the easier points get!Ĭricut users are in a different boat. And don't worry, if you move or delete something by accident you can always undo - just hit Ctrl-Z. Now it's just a matter of patience and practice. You can then use the handles to decide how big you want that angle to be. Reversely, if you want the point to be angled, you can click Corner in the panel to the right and it will create an angle. If you want to round the top you can click Smooth in the panel to the right: You can also move points by dragging with the mouse or using your arrow keys on the keyboard.īack to the Point Editing Panel - if we look at the original point again, it is a sharp angle creating a point at the top. If I wanted to delete that part, I can just hit Delete on my keyboard or Delete in the menu to the right and it will remove all of those points at once. Here I've Shift-clicked all of the nodes around the inside piece of the A.
You can select multiple points at once by holding down the Shift key and clicking all of the point you would like to select.
The handles tell the line which way to bend and move. The red lines show you where the arms or handles of the points are going. See how the one point inside the A is white with little red lines? That point is currently selected or clicked on. Now your design will be covered in points - the little grey squares here: The Point Editing panel will open to the right hand side.
(There's more on importing files here.) Once your design is open, look at the tool bar on the left side and click the Point Editing icon. (See the install tutorial here.)įirst you'll open your svg file in Studio. Let's start with Silhouette Studio and below we'll look at Inkscape - a great free software program that Cricut users can use to edit. It just takes a quick touch up and off you go. Sometimes one of those dots is out of place or looks jagged and it throws everything off. Don't just give up - you can fix it!Įvery svg is just a collection of nodes (or points in Studio) that tell your machine where to cut. You fall in love with a design, but it would be even better if it didn't have one thing - an out of place bump, bad spacing, a word you don't want, etc.
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