Weld and Score in Cuttle

We just made “Weld and Score” free in Cuttle.

It’s like “welding” shapes or text together but it also adds score lines between the letters or shapes that are being welded.

The easiest way to try it out is by typing any text on the Weld and Score Text template. You can type any text and choose any font and it will instantly

  1. Connect the letters and dots together
  2. Add score lines in blue between each letter (and dot)
  3. Let you download the resulting SVG

weld and score demo

Weld and score can also be applied to arbitrary shapes and text in the Cuttle Editor. This diagram shows the difference between a normal weld and “weld and score”. Notice that unlike a normal weld, the order of the shapes matters (whether the star is on top of the circle or vice versa).

@federico recorded a nice video tutorial showing how to use Weld and Score in your own designs.

editor-demo

We use this “weld and score” technique in many of Cuttle’s official templates (where you type a name and it generates a personalized SVG for you).

It lets you have very legible names while keeping things in a single piece — no i dots falling through the honeycomb, multiple letters to glue, etc.


Easter Bunny - Easter Egg - Dog Bone Ornament - Snowman Ornament

As far as I know, the only way to do “weld and score” in other design programs is by manually breaking up paths and individually deleting / re-coloring them. I encourage you to try it out in Cuttle and incorporate this effect into your designs!

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Oh that’s brilliant! Thank you for making it freeeeee :smiley:

Weld And Score - deirdrebeth

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I had just gone to Cuttle after getting an email about this. This will be great. I love all the new things Cuttle comes up with. I just need to make it my default instead of Inkscape…I’m getting there :slight_smile:

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Thanks @tobyschachman for all the hard work to make Cuttle an excellent product, and for making lots of features available free for new users.

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Oh wow, that’s so cool! I’ve done this manually and it’s a pain. Making it automatic is truly a godsend for anyone cutting out text.

Glowforge really needs to copy this feature ASAP :grinning:

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Way to go!

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This is very clever, and I thank you.

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You are a genius! Thank you for making this so much easier for everyone!!!

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Again, Cuttle hitting it out of the park.

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That is brilliant and something that should be added to Inkscape (and every other design program :slightly_smiling_face:). In fact it seems like something @evansd2 could do before the day is out :smile:

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Fantastic

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