Reviews of Silhouette designs

Some files should have never made it into the Store. I wish there was someplace to "rate" a file. I have one that is obviously traced and it was done very poorly. The edges are so jagged there is no way it will cut right. I saw someone post an example of an "infinity - love" design where the word LOVE was in the infinity loop. When you opened up the design - you could actually see a picture of someones wrist with that tattoo on it. They had traced the tattoo off that picture and not removed the picture from the mat before adding it to the store! LOL - - It has since been removed.

I prefer to do print & cut on a lot of the designs that have tons of layers or tiny pieces. I take a "snip" of the design (enlarged view at the Silhouette Design Store) and then I just paste it onto my mat, next to the file. I shut off all the cut lines, except the very outside one, and then fill each area with color by using the eyedropper tool to color match from the snipped image (Snip is a Windows too, you can take a screen shot of your screen, but it allows you to pick what area of the screen you want to "snip")

There is a tutorial on Pinterest on how to do this, and I think the lady who does the Silhouette School blog also did a tutorial on it.

When you are enlarging a border to 12" how are you doing this? Are you entering a value into the the scale window, or are you just dragging it to 12".

SVG files can only be opened and used if you have paid for the Designer Edition of the program. They work exactly the same as Studio files, although some do not have cut lines on them. You can check by opening the Cut Style window (looks like the blade cartridge, on the far right toolbar). If the lines show up dark red - they are on. If not, just select the file and choose "CUT" from the menu to enable the cut lines. You NEVER need to trace a SVG file to get the cut lines.

Hmmm, as far as I know you don't get the PDF Miss Kate Cuttables when you buy the file from Silhouette. Unless I have not been seeing it .

I have had a couple of problem files, but different than the ones described here.

My personal vent about the designs is that in recent months, I have been disappointed in general with the quality of offerings. I am wondering if I was stupid to resubscribe. I usually could wipe out all my credits by the end of the month they were issued, but I still have about $30 left from last month that I am struggling to use.

I have noticed several designs that I could tell at a glance would probably not cut well. I find myself wondering if they test cut the designs before offering them in the store to sell. I suspect that some do not test their designs before posting in the store.

At any rate, I am not particularly happy with many of the new designs these days.

I have bought a few from the Silhouette store that I could not get to work. They were very complicated with intricate cuts. Now I shy away from the ones that are too detailed.