11 Feb 2019
New Features
Standard Edition and above
- Color Fonts now supported
- Print Bleed - Extend the printed area outside the cut lines to ensure that no white, unprinted areas are showing on the edges of your cut-out.
- Thumbnail previews - STUDIO3 file thumbnails now display as a preview of the file.
- Silhouette Library Updates (For a full list of changes, scroll down to ‘Library Updates’)
Designer Edition and above
- Lasso Selection tool - Select multiple shapes using the lasso tool.
- Warp Templates - Bend shapes and text with the pre-defined templates.
Designer Edition Plus and above
- Flexishapes - Quickly create and edit complex shapes.
- Puzzle Generator - Turn your photos into puzzles with the puzzle creator
Business Edition
- Font Creation - Turn your handwriting into a font
- Digital Font Creation - Create your own font using the design tools within Studio
- Edition Toggling - Quickly adjust your display to match alternate editions of Studio
Library Updates
- Thumbnail size slider - Adjust the size of design thumbnails with the new thumbnail slider
- ‘File Types’ & ‘Sort By’ filters - Library designs can now be filtered with the new ‘File Types’ & ‘Sort By’ filters
- Favorites folder - Designs can now be Favorited by clicking the ‘Star’ symbol, these files can then be found in the new ‘Favorites’ folder
- Library & Design split-view - View the Library and Design page simultaneously by clicking the Library icon that appears on the left-hand side toolbar while on the ‘Design’ page
- Unseen design indicator - New designs that have not been interacted with will have a blue bold title marking them as unseen. Folders containing unseen designs will display a blue dot. To mark designs as seen you can:
- Right-click a folder and select ‘Mark All as Seen’.
- Right-click the unseen design and select ‘Mark as Seen’
- Left-click the unseen design
- Once a folder no longer contains "unseen" designs, the blue dot will disappear.
- Library Import UX update
- Empty Folder indicator - Empty library folders will now show ‘This folder is empty.’ within the thumbnail view when selected
- Expandable Library thumbnails - Library thumbnails can now be expanded by clicking the icon that appears when hovering over a design
- Silhouette Studio will now request that a library backup is created before migrating the library into a Silhouette Studio 4.2 compatible state
- Local User files and a chosen Silhouette account will be merged into a single library account or these Local User files can be exported to a user-specified location on your hard drive.
- Advanced Settings have been added to the Library, from here you can:
- Take a snapshot of the current library state. These snapshots can then be reverted to if in rare circumstances a library is lost
- Remove duplicated files
- To access the Library, a Silhouette account needs to be signed in. The Silhouette account can be set to ‘Work Offline’ which will stop automatic syncing.
Bug Fixes
Standard Edition and above
- Library fixes
- The Library has been optimized to improve the speed
- Library designs containing an ampersand (&) within the file name will now display successfully
- Library imports can now run in the background while you continue using Studio
- ‘Show Properties’ window has received a UX update
- ‘Show All Designs’ has been renamed to ‘All Files’
- ‘Library’ has been renamed to ‘Designs’
- Single-clicking an empty space in the library deselects all selected items
- Import to Library has now been greyed out until a Silhouette account is signed-in
- Crash Fixes
- Fixed an issue which was, in some instances, causing Studio to crash on start-up
- Corrupted studio3 files will no longer crash studio when opened and instead display a corrupted file warning message
- Adjusting the angle of a text item’s Fill Pattern no longer causes Studio to crash
- Fixed a crash that was occurring on launch
- Silhouette Studio will no longer crash on launch for libraries that contain duplicate files
- Removing Silhouette accounts will no longer crash Studio
- Selecting purchased SDS fonts no longer crashes Studio
- Studio no longer crashes when applying popup to text or grouped shapes
- Studio no longer crashes when removing cloud accounts
- General Fixes
- Silhouette Studio no longer forgets Silhouette machines on a restart of the software
- Fixed inability to select text objects in all known conditions
- The Silhouette Design Store will now open your default browser window when clicked on
- Can no longer save to a full storage location
- Most recently opened files now display at the top of the Open Recent list rather than the bottom
- Files that are merged into Studio now appear within the Open Recent list
- The Open Recent list now correctly updates when new files are opened
- The text-align icon now updates to match the selected alignment
- Registration Marks can no longer be activated if the Stamp Mat is active
- The Line Style panel now correctly appears within the Panels file menu
- Calibration document tab now closes once the Calibration window has been closed from the Send page
- The tooltip for the Line Color tab now appears correctly
- Added the ability to zoom in and out within the User Manual when using CTRL + or CTRL -
- A scroll bar now appears for release notes that appear within Preferences > Updates
- Themes now update successfully when selected from the Preference window
- The 'Check for Updates -> Monthly' option now displays correctly
- The text color of brackets now updates as expected when highlighted
- The Silhouette ALTA mat can now be selected from the Cutting Mat list
- Updated the ‘Incompatible Cutting Mat’ warning message text
- ‘New Folder’ option has been added to the context menu when right-clicking within the thumbnail view
- DXF files now import successfully into Studio
- Design thumbnail successfully updates when ‘Retry Download’ is used
- Design count is now shown next to folders in thumbnail view
- Updated the spinning sync icon to improve visibility
- Error tone no longer sounds when unknown shortcuts are pressed on Mac
- Improved the processing time when going to Send
- No longer need to select Panels & Tools twice due to lost focus on Mac
- Additional specialty material settings have been added
- Sticky Note text style and size can be updated
- Right-clicking on your workspace now provides the option to “Show/Hide Registration Marks”
- Fixed a spacing issue that occurred during the ‘Do you want to save changes’ prompt
- It is no longer possible to create shapes with a width and height of 0
- If multiple shapes are selected when entering point edit mode all shapes will now display their edit points instead of just one shape
- Point Editing tools found on the Quick Access Toolbar now have the correct tooltips
- Updated UI for preference modal windows
- CMD ‘+’ and ‘–‘ now correctly zoom in and out on Mac OSX
Designer Edition and above fixes
- Corrupted PDF files will no longer crash studio when opened and instead display a corrupted file warning message
- SVG’s that contain patterns no longer crash Studio when opened from the Library
- Condensed layers will now successfully highlight when a contained object is selected
- Optimized PDF file import speed and reliability
- Guidelines can no longer be created while the Ruler is turned off
- Node count for opened PDF files has been greatly reduced
- SVG files now open as expected
- Fixed truncation issue that occurred on the Object on Path tab
Designer Edition Plus and above fixes
- Adv. Rhinestone icons have been moved to stop overlapping text
- Filling text or shapes with Adv. Rhinestones no longer crashes Studio
Business Edition fixes
- Page width can now be adjusted above 12 inches
- View menu no longer has multiple methods of turning BE Page Setup on and off
- Studio no longer crashes when the ‘Regular Grid’ view is selected within the Tiling panel
- Weed lines now display in the Panels file menu
