SCAL Lesson 1 - the basics

As promised, SCAL Lesson 1 is up and you can watch the video here.

It covers the following:

• refer to CraftEdge’s tutorials for installing, activating and setting up drivers (if you are a Windows user)
• general look around the screen
• panels
  • Document panel
  • Position & Size panel
  • Fill & Stroke panel
    • changing colours
    • matching colours using eye dropper
  • Style panel
  • Text panel
• setting up your mat
  • displaying the grid
  • portrait vs landscape orientation
• view modes (outline versus filled objects)
  • View menu
  • Show Outlines Only checkbox in Document panel
• setting up your Cameo
• determining which cutter is selected if you use multiple cutters
• describe shape handles and what they do (see image below)
  • basic handles
    • Free Move
    • Vertical Move
    • Horizontal Move
    • Stretch
    • Stretch Vertical
    • Stretch Horizontal
    • Rotate
  • advanced handles
• cutting an image with your Silhouette cameo
• SVG files
• importing
• exporting

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