Quick Tip - How To Fix Jumbled Text Or Designs In Design Space

If  you clicked "Make It" in Design Space, and found your design to be all out of order, go back, select everything that is the same color, and "attach"

Then Design Space will send each part of your design to it's own mat by color, keeping each item spaced exactly where you placed it.

Attach can waste a lot of vinyl.  If you have a 11.5 by 11.5 inch design, and just one piece of red at the top and one at the bottom, you do not want to attach those.  You can manually place those pieces.  But when you have a smaller design, it's often worth it to "waste" a little vinyl to save the hassle of trying to properly place all the pieces separately.  

Note - In 2022, the new text box updates keep text from jumbling quite so much

.  Previously, if you typed Cat into a text box, it might be sent to the mat as tCa.  Now, everything in one text box will stay in order, so Cat will go to the mat as Cat.  But if you have several text boxes, and you want them all to stay spaced the way you have placed them, you will still need to select all of your text boxes and attach them together.  And items in an svg will still need to be attached if you want them to cut exactly the way they appear on the mat.

For more about using text in design space:

The basics of text in design space - How to add tails, curve, space & weld, and use writing fonts without them being "bubbles" - 

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/12/using-text-in-design-space.html

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When to Attach, Weld, & Flatten

Another Tip -

Often you can use Attach instead of slice!

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An Index Of My Quick Tip Cards

Also a slideshow of them, & A printable pdf version

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An Index Of All Of My Cricut Related Blog Posts

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