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Import PDF / Illustrator

Imports vector paths at actual size. Strokes become centerlines; overlapping paths stay separate. Raster images and live text are not imported. Convert text and stroke widths to outlines before exporting to preserve them.

Characters

Choose a character to insert at your text cursor. Only characters with a Unicode assignment are shown.

Cut preview

Shows design moves and travel between paths. Machine setup and parking are not shown. Playback speed is illustrative, not a cutting-time estimate. No commands are sent to the cutter.

Recover a local draft

Unsaved work from this account is available on this device. Other open tabs may have newer work.

Local drafts are not cloud backups. Clearing browser data removes them. Use Save to keep a project in your account.

Print at 100% / actual size on the selected paper. Turn off “Fit to page” and headers/footers. Choose a margin your printer supports; the green guide does not print. Left and Top position the entire included design. Return to regular cutting to use mat coordinates.

Sync libraries & jobs

Bring saved items to another computer using your private cloud allowance. Preview and sync each library when ready. Local deletions do not delete cloud copies.

Cloud snapshots

Up to 10 snapshots per library. Remove older copies to free space. Synced jobs still require placement review before cutting.

Cloud saves & history

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After reopening the browser, use Recover drafts to keep unfinished work as a copy. Download a backup for a copy you can move to another device.

Checkpoints

Keep up to 20 saved milestones per project. Autosave does not create checkpoints. Open a checkpoint as a separate copy; your current document is kept in Recover drafts. Project backups include artwork and settings. Use File → Sync libraries & jobs to transfer saved fonts separately.

Sign in to enable local draft recovery

Nest stickers

Move complete stickers into available space. Each image and its cut outlines stay together. Unchecked, hidden and locked artwork stays in place and reserves space.

Stickers to move

Full rectangular artwork bounds are reserved, including bleed and transparent areas. The preview searches for a compact layout without resizing stickers. All chosen stickers must fit before Apply is available.

Gray areas stay in place. Dashed boxes and margin guides do not cut. Preview and Stop leave your design unchanged; Apply moves the chosen stickers in one undo step.

Find tools

Ctrl / ⌘ K to open · ↑ ↓ to browse · Enter to choose

Image cleanup

Adjust the artwork for printing. The original is kept so you can change or restore these edits later.

Before · click a background color to remove
After · paint to keep or remove
Remove a background color

Click the Before image, or enter a sample position as a percentage from its top-left corner. Raise tolerance to remove more similar colors.

Refine the edges

Keep restores pixels from Before. Softening fades the remaining edge inward; removed background stays transparent.

Cut outline

Replaces this image’s linked outlines with its outer silhouette. Preview the pink cut line before applying. Interior holes remain printed. Geometry changes require reviewing paper placement again.

Image size and placement stay unchanged. Cut outlines change only when Update cut outline is checked. Restore original restores image pixels; use Undo to restore replaced outlines. To crop, mask or add bleed afterwards, restore these edits or choose Keep current appearance. Keeping resets earlier crop, mask and bleed restore controls; Undo remains available.

Text styles

Colors apply to printing and exports; the cut layer stays the same. Welding joins letters within consecutive runs of one color. Ligatures depend on the font and do not cross changes of font, size or color.

Alternate characters

Alternates and ligatures use supported Latin/default font features. Contextual script shaping is not supported. The preview below shows actual outlines; your original text remains editable.

Crop image

Drag a rectangle over the original image, or enter how much to trim from each edge. The original pixels are retained, and linked cut outlines stay in place.

This preview shows the image before rotation and flips. Teal outlines the crop; yellow shows linked cut outlines. Shaded pixels will be hidden. Apply keeps the image's current orientation and scale.

Crop before adding bleed or arranging a sticker sheet. To edit a crop under bleed, first restore the cropped image in Bleed.

Sticker bleed

Extend image colors past closed cut outlines, including into cutout holes. The original image is retained, and all cut outlines stay in place.

All linked outlines define the shape. Nested outlines alternate between filled areas and holes, regardless of drawing direction. Open, touching or crossing outlines must be fixed first. Every edge must meet visible image color on the kept side.

Bleed can fill a narrow hole or meet across a gap; check the preview. Transparency inside kept areas is preserved, and other artwork is replaced by bleed. Apply before arranging a sticker sheet so spacing includes it. Bleed scales when you resize; preview again to set a new physical amount.

Arrange sticker sheet

Recipes keep this destination selected. A production document preserves the source in local recovery on this browser; save both projects to keep them in your account.

Arrange the selected sticker in rows and columns. The total includes the original, which moves to the first position. Each new copy stays linked to its own cut outlines.

Position and gaps use the full image and outline bounds. This grid tool supports up to 20 image objects. Use the header’s Sticker sheet for up to 100 on printable paper. In the current document, other artwork—including hidden objects—reserves space.

Material profiles

Save copies the chosen layer’s current settings and cutter model. Profiles are account-local on this browser; use a backup to transfer them.

Detail preflight

Review small closed contours, dense points, repeated cuts, open cut paths and image resolution. Hidden artwork still cuts when its layer is enabled. Select a finding to highlight its bounds.

Production planner & recall

Plan jobs across cutter stations. Times are your estimates; prepared/completed states are manual records. Open each job for the normal print/cut workflow. This planner does not send to devices or feed sheets.

Add cutter station

CutArc labels recall this browser’s saved job for review. They do not use Silhouette’s optical barcode protocol. Job backups and working artwork remain separate from the station plan.

Image mask & pattern

Linked closed contours define the visible artwork, including holes. Repeat your image as a pattern swatch, or keep its current appearance.

Design groups

Keep images, stickers and vectors together. Open a group to organize its children. Cut layers remain independent; image artwork stays behind vectors.

Select a group to move, rotate, flip, copy or resize it on the mat. Group resizing keeps proportions. Ungroup to edit individual artwork or use sticker sheet tools.

Contour nest artwork

Move complete vector objects and image assemblies with finer rotation choices. Image rectangles, holes and disconnected pieces stay reserved. Existing artwork is moved; no copies are added.

Objects to move

Up to 50 moving objects / 50000 points. Finer rotations take longer. The search checks up to eight free regions around reserved artwork, with a 20-second search budget. A preview is an arrangement found within those limits, not a proof of the tightest possible layout. Apply requires every chosen object to fit.

Design library

Browse the shared CutArc catalog or keep reusable artwork on this browser. Catalog designs are added as cut outlines; check their size and details for your material.

Applying saved modes changes every object on the affected layers. Speed, force, blade depth and holder settings stay at your current values. Undo restores the added artwork and layer modes.

Font maker

Draw or trace a character, select its closed outlines, then assign it here. Build up to 256 characters. This account's font draft saves on this browser; download a backup to move it elsewhere.

Assign selected outlines

1000 units per em: 800 above the baseline and 200 below. A lowercase character should use the same em height as your capitals. Nested contours make holes. Curves become sampled outlines at font resolution.

Export creates a regular OpenType font with character widths. Kerning pairs, ligatures, shaping rules and hinting are not generated. Use artwork you have permission to include in a font.

Templates & shapes

Create a puzzle, stepped pop-up card or decorative shape. Select the complete result and reopen this tool to change its parameters while keeping its placement and transforms.

Each chosen layer's mode applies to every object on that layer. Undo restores those settings. Templates keep editable parameters in project files; individual node edits convert the affected path to ordinary geometry. Check paper/card fit and folds on scrap material before a full run.

Sketch & rhinestones

Create pen strokes or circular template holes from the selected closed outlines. Nested contours stay empty. Cyan shows the new geometry; gray shows the source.

Applying sets the entire chosen layer to Draw for hatching or Cut for holes. Other objects on that layer use that setting too. Output is grouped and editable; ungroup to adjust individual strokes or holes. Contour holes are centered on the outline; close neighbors are skipped to avoid overlap. Test hole size with your stones and template material before a full run.

Fill & gradient

Fill the selected contours together, including inner holes. Fills appear in the editor, full artwork exports and printing. Cutting still uses the same outlines.

Keep filled contours together when moving or copying them to retain holes. Cut outlines only export always omits fills. Removing a fill restores ordinary outline display.

Text on path

Font: . Letters follow the saved baseline without bending their shapes. Sharp corners and tight curves can make letters overlap; adjust size and spacing in the preview.

Positive baseline offset moves to the right of the path's direction. Closed paths wrap at the start; text is limited to one lap. The captured baseline stays with this text when the original outline changes or is removed.

Production jobs

Saved artwork and layouts stay fixed. Open one mat at a time; printing and cutting use only the active document.

Check these after completing this saved mat. Opening, printing or cutting never changes these records automatically; uncheck to reset.

Opening preserves your current document in Recover drafts and opens a fresh copy of the saved mat. Changes to that copy do not update the job. All outlines are previewed; output uses saved layer and print settings. Return to source opens the job's source snapshot.

Jobs stay on this browser for this account. Download a backup to keep artwork, all mats and progress together, or transfer them to another browser. Deleting a job keeps open documents and recovery drafts.

Import production jobs

Add independent copies to this account's job library on this browser. Your current document and existing jobs stay unchanged.

The backup includes original images retained for crop and bleed. Opening an imported mat creates fresh recovery copies here. Previous browser recovery history is not included. Up to 50 jobs / 64 MB total.

Automatic weed lines

Divide excess vinyl into smaller pieces around the selection, or all enabled artwork if nothing is selected. All artwork is protected, including unselected paths and the inside of closed shapes.

Weed lines use the selected layer’s blade settings. Clearance leaves small bridges next to the artwork; remove those by hand. Previewing and adding lines do not start the cutter.

Export artwork

Export images, vector fills and cut outlines. SVG and PDF keep the physical size and vector curves; PNG and JPG use the pixel size you choose. Registration marks are not included.

Visible images are included regardless of cut-layer settings. Locked images can be exported. Path visibility follows the chosen layers or selection, including hidden cut paths.

Fit artwork adds a 1 mm border. Current media preserves position and requires all included artwork to fit. PNG/JPG pixel sizes do not set a physical print size; use SVG or PDF for dimensions in mm. JPG uses a white background. PDF keeps original image resolution and supports pages up to 5080 mm per side. Export does not apply job mirroring, overcut or repeated passes.

AI design studio

Generate a single-color decal or turn a photo into cut paths. Review the outlines before adding them to your design.

Free weekly generations and purchased credits are shared with Plasma and Laser. Each generation uses one free generation first, then one credit. Server generation failures are refunded.

Loading balance…

Adding artwork is undoable. Adjust its size and cutting layers on the canvas before cutting.

Edit object

Leave blank to use an automatic label. A name applies to the whole group.

Stacking order

The top of the object list is the front. Order affects which overlapping outline you select and which shape Subtract removes. Cutting still follows cut-layer and inner-first settings.

Simplify paths

Remove extra points while keeping the cut outlines within your deviation limit. Crossings, touching outlines and changes to holes are rejected.

The bound compares current cut outlines and includes project save precision. Existing curve-to-outline approximation is separate.

Apply converts the entire selection to point outlines. Curve handles, editable text and saved warp sources are removed. Undo restores them. Names, groups and cut layers stay intact.

Warp / tumbler

Positive bends up; negative bends down. Height is the artwork’s height before bending.

The dashed gold boundary is a preview guide and will not cut. The result stays at the selection’s current top-left position.

Optical alignment · paper / pen trial

Experimental Cameo 5 test: read three printed marks, then score or draw over printed crosses to check alignment. This test does not change your project or machine calibration. For stickers, choose Cameo 5 optical in Sticker sheet.

Use plain matte white copy paper on a cutting mat. Connect the original Cameo 5 by USB or Bluetooth before starting. Other models, including Cameo 5 Alpha, are not enabled for this trial.

Stop prevents further commands; it cannot recall motion already sent. Use the cutter’s Pause or power button if needed. The test disconnects afterward; unload and reconnect before another job.

Measure the result

Rows A–C run top to bottom; columns 1–3 run left to right. Measure the scored or drawn cross center relative to the printed cross center, in millimeters. For paper scores, unload the mat and use light from the side to see the lines. Only completed crosses can be entered.

CrossRight / left (mm)Down / up (mm)

Sticker sheet

Print the pictures, then cut their matching outlines. The paper and mat previews share the same layout.

Select several pictures at once, or add more later. Set a size and quantity for each design, then nest them together on one sheet. Adding pictures or rearranging a printed sheet requires a new print.

The border adds space outside each new outline: 2 mm adds 4 mm to its total width and height. Use 0 for an outline at the artwork edge. Changing the arrangement requires a new print.

Gap is the minimum space between stickers, separate from the border around each design. Set a smaller gap to fit more; 0 allows touching edges. Tight outlines fits shapes around one another, ignoring clear picture corners while protecting printed artwork. Rectangular frames keeps the full picture frames apart.

Free rotation searches around the full circle, then fine-tunes promising angles. It keeps the best fit found and may take up to 30 seconds. Available with Tight outlines; choose Keep orientation for upright designs.

Widths keep the picture’s proportions. Border adds unprinted space outside a new cut outline; existing outlines stay unchanged. Transparent edge follows opaque artwork, including white, and smooths small pixel steps. Ovals may cut off picture corners.

Set Quantity beside each picture (0 skips it), up to 100 stickers total. Choose Fill to find how many copies fit with your gap and printer margin. Tight packing also checks the rectangular arrangement and keeps the better fit; complex outlines may lower the copy limit.

1. Print artwork · actual size

Green = safe print area. Guides and cut lines do not print.

2. Place paper on mat · ↑ top toward cutter

White = paper. Pink = cut outlines. Guides do not cut.

Pro also unlocks contour nesting, sticker nesting and sheets, bleed, tiling, artwork exports, production planning and saved jobs, and Font maker. It works across CutArc’s plasma, laser and vinyl apps.

Artwork stacking

Frontmost artwork is listed first. Move photos and vectors above or below each other. Groups and linked stickers move together. Stacking changes printed appearance; cut coordinates and settings stay the same.

Saved fonts

Uploaded fonts and fonts you create are remembered on this browser. Download your originals before moving to another device. Removing a font keeps existing text outlines, but editing that text needs the font again.