New Silhouette Club - Ugh!

I get my cameo blades 3 for $15 from Craftvinyl.com he's got a lot of rules but the best prices on blades and vinyl I've seen.

I was not even tempted. It's only a total of 120 "exclusive designs" per year that I would be denied access to (out of thousands), and I have been less than excited about most of their recent offerings in the online design store. I've been wondering if their better designers have left, are designing less, or are getting lazy. I am having a hard time spending my credits these days.

When I need a new blade or mat, I can always go to Hobby Lobby, where I can use a coupon.

Yah. I don't think so.

I'm not signing up - I just ordered from them (2 mats and a blade) - $9.64 in SHIPPING! Sadly noticed that Amazon was much lower after the fact. Also there's a vinyl guy selling 3 blades for $15 online.

I just can't imagine that those "exclusive" shapes will be all that considering how much is free online.

Does it remind anyone of the ohhlala exclusive Circle membership thing Cricut tried to justify?

I couldn't even log into the site today from my old tab. Had to go through Goggle. The new site looks really cool, but it is completely like the Cricut site.

I'm not joining, at least for now. Like all the others have said, I buy the blades and mats elsewhere; Amazon for me. Plus, I've had my Cameo for almost 2 years and have only changed the blades twice. Once in the early days because I didn't know better and didn't realize the ragged cuts I was getting was due to fibrous paper, not a dull blade. And the other time was after a year and I thought it was time for a new blade. And I use my Cameo A LOT. I have about 5 mats in rotation, so they will last quite a while.

I'll wait and see what the exclusive designs they have, but for the most part I think I'm good. I usually have a pretty specific idea in mind when I'm using the Cameo, so random designs just aren't my thing. And with the trace feature, I can cut almost anything on the internet.

I have the free trial going. If I had realized the the elusive files aren't released until the 15th, I would have waited. I can still cancel after seeing them though.

I can get too good of a deal on Amazon for mats, blades, etc. for the Club to be all that great of a deal.

I hate that they are starting to look more and more like Cricut. A big part of the charm, for me, of Silhouette was that it was so NOT like Cricut.

I think I am missing something....never heard of this...someone please explain it to me....THanks

The software release was very disappointing. It seemed to be rushed out to beat the release of the Cricut Explore. Maybe it wasn't, but it was certainly released too soon. They have done a good job of fixing it though, and they did listen to the customer and bring back the tools that were missing.

I am very happy with the new version of the software now - but I will always take my time on getting the new updates from here on out! LOL

I haven't upgraded, LOL. My version 2 works just fine and I'm happy with that! 

I think there will always be "issues" for some people, just due to the nature of different computers, different operating systems, different video cards, etc.

But for me - it works great. I don't have any problems with anything not working the way it is supposed to. I use a PC. I have a good fast processor and plenty of RAM. Any problems I have (other than the atrocious first release of V3) are directly related to my computer - and operator error - LOL - lots of the latter!



Not that I have noticed. The only file sizes that I would consider large are ones that I have created for Print/Cut and I have a lot of high quality pictures and graphics included in the file. But a detailed file, that is cut only - very small.



Like DeltaKaren said, there is an option to save as Legacy. You can use any file in V3, but you can't use V3 files in V2, but you can convert a V3 to a V2/Legacy within the V3 Studio.

I love the Export feature of the V3 update. It is fantastic for backing up and/or transferring your files. It doesn't count to the 3 restores from Silhouette. It backs up everything you have in your Studio Library. So if you have loaded files from other sources into your Library, the backup will move those over too. It will keep everything organized just as you have it now. (Files and folders). It takes a very small amount of space to move it too. I use a USB thumb drive and it doesn't even have to be a very large one. Just click Export and choose the USB drive as the destination. On the new computer - click Import and it copies everything over. You do need to use your log in username/password when you import (I think just for security reasons - so you don't share your library with others)

Even if you are not getting a new computer - I would still recommend the Export onto a USB drive or an external hard drive just to be safe. The backup does not include your system fonts - so be sure and copy the system font folder onto that drive also.

Things did move a bit in the new V3. Just ask if you get stuck - but everything is still there. Cut lines settings are in a different spot - but you can still turn them on and off. You can now do layers - but I find them a PIA and don't use them.

I'm super annoyed that now I have two different file types saved on my computer. I don't use my library to load/look for images, I use the file>open feature because I like being able to organize the files I make into different folders. Now I have to look for each different file type or change every time to view all. Super irritating!

Here is a screen shot of V3, so you can see it looks a little different, but a lot the same. I have it opened up to the cut settings window.