Offset Cutting

joannaolson

I am returning to Silhouette after a long hiatus after just purchasing a Portrait 3 and I'd like to make stickers with the images that I'm importing having a small white space around.  I use the offset and it creates a secondary cut line which I don't want.
I want the tracing around the image to be deleted (which I do) and just cut on the offset line.  But even though I deleted the line hugging the image, it still cuts when I put it through the machine.  So in effect, it reverted back to the double cut line. What am I doing wrong??

MeFlick

welcome to the Make The Cut (MTC)  software support forum. Since you just joined the forum and are working with a newer Silhouette cutter I am going to assume that you are trying to use Silhouette’s program rather than MTC. If that is the case, you will need to find a group that supports that cutter with their software. Unfortunately, they do not provide an official support forum. If you do Facebook, you can search for Silhouette groups on Facebook there are several user groups there where you might find so,e help with their software.

joannaolson

Okay - I was beginning to think I was in the wrong forum.  thanks for the prompt reply.....Hope your Thanksgiving was a good one.

MeFlick

Your welcome. Holiday was good as I hope yours was. Unfortunately MTC is now an abandoned software program for cutters so there is no longer much activity here, just a few die hards who have trouble letting it go. 😉☺️😏 Sad because it was and still is a great program and is responsible for pushing the envelope for cutter software for years and this was always a busy sharing place. As a result, it sometimes takes a bit for one of us die heads to check in to answer questions.

Liz_A

You want to have two shapes on the mat...one which is the image you are going to print but not cut, and two which is the shadow or offset that you are going to cut. So get those set up, making sure to use the SS print and cut and set one to print and not and the second to print and cut. Hope that makes sense.