By Design Bundles
26 Mar 2019
1 Min

Silhouette Alta 3D printer weld function

1- Open Silhouette Alta software. Click on the right arrows to open up your saved designs, or upload your own design.

2- Upload your design. Use your design library or upload a second design. You can even use any of the shape tools.

3- Select the shape you would like to weld with and resize.

4- Move the design to overlap the other design. At least a part of each design need to touch to be able to weld.

5- Once the 2 designs are where you want to them to weld, click on the select all tool.

6- Click on the weld tool. The two designs are now joined together (welded)

7- When you go to the print screen the design is all as one not 2 separate files to print.

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