Today, I will talk about two functions within the Design Space app that often get confused: Attach and Weld tools. At first, using the Cricut machine was a little trouble to understand the difference between these two tools. Once you know these tools, Design Space will be easy to use and a lot of fun. You can use the program better and make designs more quickly.
Learning about new tools and techniques within the Design Space takes a little time and practice. My target is to empower you to create Cricut designs with more confidence. The Attach and Weld tool may seem similar at first glance, but they will give different results when sending the design to the mat. Still, the shapes are separate pieces, but their layout is frozen in place. The Weld tool joins two or more different shapes into a single shape. The shapes are no longer distinct but fuse into a single shape. In short, the Attach tool keeps its shape in the same arrangement as when sending the design to the mat for cutting. Let us talk about these concepts in more detail.
What does the Attach tool do?
The Attach tool has 2 functions: First, to fix the position of cut layers and to attach Draw or Score layers to cut layers. You can use the Attach tool to position cut layers in the same position as each other. When using the Attach tool, the layout you see on Design Space Canvas will be the same layout when you send the design to the cutting mat.
Therefore, you’ll want to use the Attach tool to position cut layers so that the pictures on the cutting mat are set as they are on the Design Space Canvas. Second, you can use the Attach tool to attach a draw or score layer to a cut layer.
What does the Weld tool do?
When you think of welding in the Design Space, think of welding metal. They’re no longer two separate pieces of metal but a single piece. The two pieces melt and fuse to form a permanent bond together.
Similarly, the Weld tool in the Design Space connects two or more different shapes to form a single shape. It removes any overlapping cut lines to make a unified picture wherever the cut-off paths have been cut.
You can use the Weld tool to merge shapes or join letters. Whatever shape or letter you Weld will change color together and cut on the same mat layer. You’ll know that pictures are welded when they turn the same color, and a new picture appears in the Layers panel.
How to use Attach and Weld Text in the Design Space
Look at the use of the Weld tool to connect script letters in the Design Space. First, open a new Canvas in the Design Space, and use the Text tool to write a word in the script font. Move the letters until they overlap. Choose every letter of the word, and click on the Attach button. Press the Advanced drop-down menu, and Press on Ungroup to Letters.
If you look at each letter, you can see a thin black line. Each letter has a different shape. They are “attached” to each other and have a fixed position. But, they are still different overlapping shapes.
You’ll know letters are attached because you’ll see the attached title in the Layers panel, with each letter as a separate picture. When sending the attached letters to the mat, you’ll notice their position remains the same, but each letter will be cut separately. The order is fixed.
How to use Attach and Weld Shapes in the Design Space
Let’s see an example of using the Attach and Weld tools with simple shapes in the Design Space.
Open a new Canvas, and use the Shapes tool to draw 6 circle shapes. I shaped the shapes into ovals and then rotated and made flower petals. When I send this to the mat, you can see the Cricut rearranges the petals to conserve mat space. So, we can go to the Canvas and use the Attach button to freeze the layout.
When we send the picture to the mat again, we see that using the Attach button has fixed the place of the petals to each other. However, the thin black lines on each of the 6 petals tell us the Cricut will cut every petal individually. Optionally, we can go to the Canvas and use the Weld button to combine every petal into a single flower shape. Then, when we send the picture to the mat, we see Cricut cut every 6 petals into a single flower shape.
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