A basic understanding of Design Space is vital if you look forward to working with a Cricut Machine. Regardless of the model, all Cricut machines use the Cricut Design Space app. It enables you to create amazing designs with the Cricut machine. For a total beginner, some of the functions of the Design Space might need to be clarified. Many new crafters need clarification on the Cricut weld and attach Tool. They need clarification about when to use these tools and how they are different from each other. By the end of this blog, all your queries will get answered, and you will have a clear idea about the Cricut weld and attach Tool.
Difference between Weld and Attach Tool
In simple terms, the Weld functions combine and merge two overlapping images into one object and cannot be undone once the project is saved. At the same time, the Attach tool holds the arrangements of the items in the Design Space app and the cutting mat. You can detach these items any time you want. Both these tools can be found at the bottom right-hand in the Layer's Panel of the Cricut Design Space.
About Attach Tool
Attach Tool is the most used Tool in the Layer's Panel. It acts as a removable glue; you use it to keep things together relative to one another on both your canvas and cutting mat. And you can detach them whenever you want. When you want to cut an image, shape, or word out of another layer, use Attach. The Attach function is a temporary way of using the Slice function. By using Attach on overlapping cut lines, you can create new shapes.
Although it keeps items in place on the Canvas and the cutting mat, the machine may still cut in a different location on the mat. You can reposition the attached items' specific location on the mat. When you want to use the scoring Tool to set the score lines onto base layers, use the Attach function. The Attach feature also guides the Cricut machine where to engrave layers, foil layers, set deboss layers, and more.
Attach Tool for holding items in place.
If you need images on the canvas to stay exactly at their initial position, click on the cut screen and use the Attach tool. Cricut automatically sorts and shifts on the cutting mat preview when you click the Make It button. You can avoid such a situation using the Attach tool at the bottom of the Layer's Panel.
Attach Tool for drawing operation.
You will frequently use the Attach feature when working with the pen, foil, engraving, deboss, and perforate operations in Design Space. You will also use this feature to add a scoreline to an image.
Detaching Objects
You can easily attach and detach any item anytime in the Design Space app. Select the attached object and click detach at the bottom of the Layer's panel.
About Weld Tool
This Tool combines two or more separate shapes, letters, or objects and merges them into one object or path. The Weld tool does it by removing any overlapping cut lines. Once you weld something, it becomes a new image and a single layer. The Weld feature is used when you want to create a new single image by combining things. You can also use this feature when the objects do not overlap.
Welding Texts
The welding tool is often used with text; to be specific, it is used with a script font and cursive letters; without it, Cricut will cut individual letters. With the Weld tool, you can get seamless cursive words. To weld the text, you need to follow the following steps.
- Type a word in Design Space that you want to weld, then select a cursive font.
- Ensure that the letter spacing is appropriate. If not, use the ungroup Tool to move the letters until the spacing feels right.
- When you select the word and text, click on the weld tool at the bottom of the Layer's Panel.
In Design Space, cursive letters with kerning will auto-weld. You only need to weld them when you ungroup the letters or change the letter spacing.
Welding Images
You need to follow the same steps as the texts to weld images. Use Weld to create new designs and shapes. You can turn basic shapes into new simple, or complex, unique shapes. To create a new shape, take two overlapping shapes and click the weld tool. You will notice that the cut line between them will disappear. You can create new shapes and designs with a simple button push.
FAQ
How Can You Unweld a Project on Design space?
The only way to Unweld or change a design or space is to click the undo button as soon as you weld. You can keep pressing the undo button until you return to where you originally welded. This will only work if you have yet to save the project; once it is saved and you close it, it's impossible to undo and Unweld the design.
What does the Attach tool do?
It keeps two or more layers on your canvas when designing in the Cricut Design Space. And on the cutting mat when making it on your Cricut machine. It keeps all your items where you can check their placement on the Design Space app. To attach means to bind a single object to another in design space in the exact location shown on the canvas when you click the Attach tool; you can also detach it at any time you like.
How do you find what font you used after welding?
When you weld a text, you give up or lose your ability to edit it; as a result, the welded text does not appear on the font selection menu. Fortunately, you can still find out which font you used by checking in the Layer's panel. Go to the image info; on the dropdown menu, you will find the font name.
