Craft Edge

Hi
can anyone tell me how to make a stencil in sure cuts a lot 2? I see there is a stencil box in sure cuts a lot 4 but cannot find how to do this in 2. thanks.

In scal2 you have to DIY your stencils. You use the rectangle tool from the shapes table and place the rectangle on top of the shape you want to turn into a stencil and use path/back minus front.
If you have both scal2 and scal4 you can create in scal4 and send to scal2 to cut if that helps.


I hope this gets you started.

So I wrote my name KELLEY in arial black font put a rectangle aaround it selected them both & tried back minus front and both the rectangle and my name disappeared & left the arrows in the top left hand corner of my mat I hit undo & tried front minus back and it worked like that. Is it still a stencil doing it like that? Thanks for helping & thanks to the op for asking the question

Kelleyscards wrote:So I wrote my name KELLEY in arial black font put a rectangle aaround it selected them both & tried back minus front and both the rectangle and my name disappeared & left the arrows in the top left hand corner of my mat I hit undo & tried front minus back and it worked like that. Is it still a stencil doing it like that? Thanks for helping & thanks to the op for asking the question

I am considering buying the pro software but with so many unanswered threads on this forum it concerns me....I have downloaded the pro 4 to try and make a stencil from a word and cant find instructions..

You want to use Object>Merge in that case. If it doesn't give you the result you want, post back and we'll get it figured out.

Also, you want to use the Stencil Bridge function first, on your text or shapes. Then add the rectangle. Then select all and do Object>Merge.