How to Create a Cut Line in Adobe® Illustrator®

To create perfectly cut graphics on your Roland® VersaCAMM® or VersaSTUDIO using Adobe® Illustrator®, you must first create a cut line. In this video, Stahls' TV educator Steven Jackson will show you the easiest way to prepare your graphic for print and cut operations.

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[rDreamyLife]

You are now my favorite person in the entire world. The only video that actually helped me. Simple and neat. Thanks a lot <3

[asmith]

Thankyou. I was just about to trace around the whole image and thought to myself, there has got to be a quicker way. Easy to follow instructions, Thankyou!

[MalaYa]

The first video which has actually helped
Thank you very much indeed!

[tom]

Thanks, this really helped, it’s a lot easier than using the pen tool!

[KingDJFM]

Thanks a lot. Best Teacher on this so far :)

[travissmith]

Thank you for the tutorial... It was very very helpful...

[audreytenzer]

Hi there, everything goes well for me up until I get to the pathfinder. When I click on unite it outlines the entire border with the background and not just the image. What am I doing wrong? :s

[civilizedagesabers]

What if you want the line to be a few hairs inside the graphic rather than exactly on the outside edge?

[fr-carter]

Fine for the outside of the design, i want to cut the whole design!

[ishtube]

when I hit expand, it doesnt do anything... why?

[mke]

Great Video mate, i am cutting on graphtec cutter, ive set up cut contour for circle but for some reason when cutting it cuts twice, any ideas why, please help if you can? thanks

[anthonylangendoen]

i do not get a dialog when clicking on expand, nor does it give an error however it still doesn't seem to change anything to my artwork, any ideas?

[kielyaitken]

Hi! This was super helpful. I hit a bit of a wall on my image though. I removed the background in photoshop, then moved the image to illustrator. But it didn’t pick up the lines around the image. There is a rectangle around the image. How do I remove the rectangle so that I can follow these directions in this video?
Thank you!

[nymsfam]

very helpful but one question and maybe someone can help? why am i not able "expand" my font? just the image. am i doing something wrong? i followed the steps.

[monieandrews]

Hi thank u is this done with every image or just an vector image

[FabulousKati]

How do I add bleed to this cut so I would't get any possible white lines on the edges?

[erikgoodwin]

I am so stuck on creating cutlines. Whenever I unite the two layers it creates a solid color square over the image instead on creating that fill just to the boundaries of the image. What am I doing wrong?

[ashleyjohnson]

How do I search for a vector graphics in what I want similar to something like that online?

[ovrheat.gamestreams]

The printer at my work they can't see a cutcontour and can't cut it :( I Made it with Illustrator CS6. Process/spot color (called it Cutcontour) - 100% magenta - -0, 3mm cutcontour - (at save, format TIFF 8 bit/transparant, Embed fonts, Transparency Overprints: Preserve
Language 3 and check every box!) Can anyone tell me what I need to do, or what the printer people do wrong?

[projekt-orion]

this is the first time I got shocked by an intro.. LOL..