welding letters

[annienet]

I am new to the cricut and sure cuts alot. I was trying to weld the letters for the name Chelsea. I was reading a tutorial and following it I spent 2 hours on it yesterday and I never did get it. any itdeas why? I was trying to finish some Christmas gifts.

[mrs.schwartz]

I also had trouble with this. The way I figured out how to do it is: you have to physically move each letter on top of each other. The weld feature does not do this for you (which is what I was expecting). If you are wanting to weld the word "TO", place the T on your mat, then place the O and move it over so that it is touching the T. Then click Weld.

I hope that helps!

[ymcrafter]

I am new to scal and cricut but watched a tutorial and it is quite easy (and I am not computer techie).
This is how I did it:
1. Write the word
2. With it highlighted, choose ungroup in the options menu.
3. Pick up each letter in turn, size and rotate to how you want. To be welded, some parts of each letter in the word need to be overlapping
4. Ctrl A to select them all. Then regroup.
5. In the properties box on the right click weld and it should work.

Hope that helps from a non techie way - sorry to others if you think this is a long way of doing it but it works for me!

Yvonne

[annienet]

Please what does it mean. "One of the objects is not a path? " I am sure each letter is over lapping. But it still will not work
Thanks in advance for your help.

[GrammyKrausse]

opps

[Sweetness4713]

If you are using SCAL2.. Type out your word and keep it on the text option.. Highlight the whole word then to the right you'll see a tracking option.. click on the tracking at it will bring your letters together.. or if you want to move say the letter S to the L.. just highlight the l and hit the tracking button..

[annienet]

OK finally figured it out. The tutorial I have tells me each step but leaves out one step.
View> Display mode> outline
Choose your font.. and size to 150%
Set as Default
Type letters and click to rotate and overlap
Then Control > A or select all
Then click
path>Object to path
Path> Combine
Path>Union

IT WORKED I LOVE IT