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Customize With Cricut Design Space Tools

Created On: October 8, 2020  |  Updated: August 16, 2022  |   7 Comments

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Have you ever found a project in design space but want to change just one tiny thing? There is a whole world of tools to use in Design Space that will open a whole new world to you. Today you are going to get the crash course in what each of these tools does and when to use it.

Introduction To Cricut Design Space

Did you just get a Cricut Maker or Cricut explore? If you want the basics of how to use Design Space this is the tutorial you will want to read and save.

Are you looking to customize a project or item in Cricut Design Space? Then you will want to know how to use the slice, weld, attach, flatten, and contour tools.

These tools are found in the bottom right corner of the design space screen. They will be super helpful to design within Cricut Design Space and I will show you how they each work.

This is the tool bar on the bottom right corner of Cricut Design Space

Group

You can group two items together by highlighting them both, right clicking, and selecting group.  Or Ctrl + G.  Grouping two items will keep them together while being moved or resized. This will not keep these items together on the cutting mat.

Learn how to customize with Cricut Design Space tools. How to use the slice, weld, flatten, contour, attach tools.

Attach

The attach tool holds items together – both on the canvas / design screen and on the cutting mat. It will attach a writing or score layer to a cut layer. 

For example, if you are wanting to have a pen draw on a card you would need to select the card (which would be a cut layer) and the text (which would be a drawing layer) and use the attach tool.  You would be drawing on the same piece of paper that is being cut out.  They are attached.

Weld

Weld is used to join two shapes together into one shape and removes any overlapping cut lines. This is most often used in cursive fonts with letters that would overlap. 

It can also be used with basic shapes to make new shapes – for example a rectangle and triangle to make a pennant.

Slice

The slice tool splits two overlapping shapes into separate pieces. It cuts one shape from another shape to create new shapes. I like to think of the slice tool as a cookie cutter.  

If you had a sandwich that you wanted to cut into a cute flower shape for your kids (you know, because you are such a fun mom, right?)  You would stack bread, cheese, meat, and bread then press the flower shaped cutter into it.  

The result would end up with the outside pieces from each layer of food.  The flower shape cutout in each layer of the sandwich. 

Note: You can only slice two images at a time, so if the tool is not showing up you can ungroup your images and try again.

Flatten

Flatten will take all the images and shapes that you have selected and presses them into a single image. Every color we remain the same as it appears on screen.

Flatten is used for the print then cut feature. If you wanted to make stickers you could use printable vinyl or sticker paper.  You would flatten the images, print the design on your home printer, and then put the sheet onto your cutting mat where it would be cut out around the entire shape.

Contour

The contour tool is used to hide or ignore pieces of a design that you do not want cut out. 

For example. Lets say you have this shape and had the letter B cut out of it. But you do not want the B to be cut out.  You would select the contour tool, which pulls up this screen:

You would then select the pieces of the b you do not want to cut.

When it is time to cut, the letter B will be completely ignored.  Those shapes are still in the design layers if you ever needed them, but they will not be cut. Sometimes this tool is a faster way to get the shape you want then trying to slice and weld lots of little pieces.

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  1. Phyllis says

    January 14, 2021

    Thank you that is such a good explanation of these features.

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    • Brooke says

      January 14, 2021

      I am so glad it helped you!

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    • Sandra says

      January 18, 2021

      Thank you, I wondered what the flatten and contour features were for x

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  2. patricia smith says

    October 8, 2021

    Thank you now I can explain better to my niece when she asks questions. so helpful

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  3. patricia smith says

    October 8, 2021

    Is there any way i can print this to help

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    December 5, 2021

    needed a way to change my email on your system – all I could do was unsubscribe.

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    • Brooke says

      December 5, 2021

      That works! Feel free to unsubscribe and if wanted, resubscribe with your new email!

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