
We’ll uncheck the box for the background so that, even if the background were in the cutting area, it would not cut. This tells us this Ai file has a background and the banners on separate layers. There are several ways to choose your cut lines, but we’ll choose the action to cut by LAYER.
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Sometimes a design in these vector formats will have a background import so you can delete that, or we’ll show you in a minute how to simply ignore it. Let’s go to the Send panel and finalize how we want this to cut.
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In the Page Setup panel, we’ll set the page size to letter size and then go to the Registration Marks tab to turn on the registration marks. We’ll leave it checked with Group and choose Import.Īt this point, your design will depend somewhat on how it was originally designed and what you intend to do with it, but for this file, let’s say we want to Print & Cut. We’ll choose to import the vector so that the design it’s ready to cut and manipulate. Navigate to the place where you have the file saved and click OK. When importing some file types, Silhouette Studio® will give you the choice to import the design as a vector or as an image. To access this feature in the Business Edition, choose the Open icon. Silhouette Studio® Business Edition lets us directly open Ai, EPS, and CDR files, which have been created from other major vector-imaging software programs (such as Adobe Illustrator® or CorelDraw®). The Business Edition does NOT provide the ability to SAVE as Ai, EPS, or CDR files.
