Way To Use Flatten Tool in Cricut Design Space Software
When you are a beginner at Cricut machines, you will encounter many new terms, like weld, attach, slice, and Flatten - refer to the design tools inside Cricut's Design Space. A Cricut Design Spaces is a powerful design software program, but it can feel overwhelming when first starting.
The Flatten tool is one of the five essential design tools for working with layers in the Cricut Design Space software. (The other layer tools are Weld, Attach, Slice, and Contour.) Luckily for us, the Flatten tool is one of the more accessible tools to understand. The Flatten tool can combine multiple layers into a single-layer printable picture that you can use to create print then cut projects. So, to help you here to learn using Cricut Design Space.
What does Cricut Flatten Tool do?
Using the Cricut Flatten tool does three things are:
This "Flattens" chosen all layers into a single layer.
It also removes every internal cut line from the chosen layers. This places a cut line around the outer outline of the newly combined picture.
Then, it converts the newly merged picture into a print then cut layer instead of a cut layer.
Here are the instructions to use the Cricut Flatten Tool
First, let’s open up the Cricut Design Space and work with some examples. All you will need is free Design Spaces software and a Cricut machine. Here are the easy steps for using the Flatten Tool:
Step 1: Open Design Space software and start a new project. Arrange two or more layers on the Design Space canvas screen.
Step 2: Choose the layers you want to Flatten. You will see a gray bounding box surrounding the pictures and the selected layers highlighted in the Layers panel. The Flatten button will turn black and activate.
Step 3: Press on the Flatten button. You will find the Flatten button at the bottom side of the Layers panel in the Actions menu at the bottom side of the screen if you're on a computer using the iOS and Android apps.
Step 4: View your results. After pressing Flatten, the pictures will be combined into a new, single layer. The new layer will be called "Flatten" and have the operation label "Print Then Cut." Now you can move, resize, or edit this layer just like you would with any other picture layer.
Some of the things to keep in mind when you are using Flatten tool
● The Flatten tool acts on one or more visible layers. If you don't have only any visible layers selected, the button will be "grayed out," and you won't be able to use it.
● You can use flatten on a single layer or multiple layers. Flatten can convert a single cut layer to a single print layer. Or, Flatten can combine multiple cut layers into a single print layer.
● After using Flatten, individual layers are no longer editable. It means that you can't change the color, size, font, etc., of any component layer of the Flatten design.
●The Flatten works whether the layers are overlapping or not. Overlapping pictures will be cropped as one piece. Non-overlapping pictures will be cropped as separate pieces.
What does flatten do on Cricut design space?
When you use Flatten, Design Space combines the selected layers into a single printable image. Using Flatten tells Design Space that you want to print the whole image, and make just one cut around the exterior outline of the combined image.
How do you use flatten?
Use the FLATTEN command to change the Z values of all lines, arcs, and polylines to 0.
Turn off or freeze any hatch layers with hatch patterns so they are not included in the selection.
Type FLATTEN at the command line.
Select all objects and press the Enter key.
Type N for No when prompted to remove hidden lines.
What is flatten and dense?
If the first hidden layer is "dense" each element of the (serialized) input tensor will be connected with each element of the hidden array. If you do not use Flatten, the way the input tensor is mapped onto the first hidden layer would be ambiguous.
How do you flatten a design in Illustrator?
To flatten an image in Illustrator, open up the Layers menu, click the menu icon in the top-right corner of the menu, and select “Flatten Artwork“. This will combine all of your layers into a single layer, effectively flattening your image.
How do you flatten transparency in Illustrator?
Here are the steps to follow to flatten transparency
Select > All.
Object > Flatten transparency...
Change default settings to our MOO preferred settings. They should look like this:
Click Okay.
Save as... > PDF.
Choose the PDF/X-1a:2001 from the first dropdown.