The Cutting Tools Power Pack 2 Add-On provides timesaving electronic cutting machine features for your BES 4 desktop
software. Now you can create digital cutting machine designs alongside your embroidery – from the same design file! Enjoy
advanced digital cutting tools at your fingertips, create beautiful rhinestone designs, adhesive vinyl designs, and heat-transfer vinyl designs. You can even create your art from scratch or modify existing artwork files.
Power Pack 2 includes artwork transformation tools such as Weld, Combine, and Knockout, while the Layering Alignment tool places alignment marks to assist in lining up multilayer vinyl designs. You can also apply rhinestones to embroidery designs, which will add sparkle to your finished projects. The tools you love using in the BES 4 Dream Edition Software also work for creating digital cutting machine files. Arrange cutting files on paths, circles, corners, or create circle text, spiral text, and monogram text, among other possibilities. Power Pack 2 also includes the capability to use the Monogram Designer to create cutting machine artwork monograms as well as amazing word collages for cutting heat transfer vinyl and regular vinyl. There are so many creative possibilities open to you with the BES 4 Power Pack 2 – Cutting Tools Add-On.
Artwork Designs
Use the built-in artwork designs intended especially for cutting, and which include: 50 artwork designs, 72 logo text samples, and 54 shapes. Plus, you can import your own FCM and SVG files.
Text Tools
Use 50 built-in fonts in addition to TrueType (TTF) fonts to create text in multiple styles: straight, circle, step text, path text, follow path text, vertical text, spiral text, and monogram text.
Rhinestone Tool
Create rhinestone designs from artwork or add rhinestones to embroidery designs.
Vinyl Layering Alignment
The Layering Alignment tool places alignment marks for each color of vinyl to aid in placement of each element before applying vinyl to a project.
Word Collage
Create word collages for embroidery or cutting.
Monogram Designer
Enjoy preset layout tools with unique monogram templates for embroidery, artwork, and cutting files.
Artwork Tools
Draw vector artwork lines with a stylus* or mouse, plus create freehand art with the free-form Pen Drawing tool. For rhinestone artwork, drawing, or converting to embroidery, use the Bezier, Curve, Arc and Line tools for added precision. *Stylus drawing requires compatible touchscreen input.
Auto Image Trace
Converts images into cuttable artwork files. Convert BMP, JPEG, TIF and PNG images into artwork to create your project.
Arrangement Tools
Arrange artwork designs on paths, circles, corners, rows, and even scatter to create fun, unique cutting designs.
Cutting/Drawing
Determine the type of line for the cutting machine. You can select to draw or cut within the software.
Sequence View
Allows you to see your color layers and drag and drop into the correct order.
Color Sort
Allows you to color sort your cutting file layers.
Distribute Tools
Distributes artwork evenly on vertical or horizontal plane.
