Sure Cuts A Lot 5 - Learning & Mastering
Over 10 Hours of Video Training with more scheduled to come.
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In this course, you'll get the basic knowledge on how to use the software. Some people will want to jump right in and start using the software. Although that is one approach, we suggest you taking this basic course. We will walk you through the features so you can start designing and creating. These videos have not been uploaded to YouTube and they were all created specifically for this course.
As a student of this course you are getting the following.
> Over 8 Hours of Video Content Currently Uploaded
> More Videos Scheduled To Be Released
> Suggest New Topics/ Lectures
> NO ADS on the website or the videos
> Learn at your own pace & pick and choose the videos that apply to your needs.
As a BONUS we will continue to update this course to match the current Sure Cuts A Lot software, version 5. As new features are added to the software, the course will be updated as well.
CRICUT DESIGN SPACE USERS: Sure Cuts A Lot 5 can be used for Design Purposes. This program will export your design in a SVG file for you to upload into Cricut Design Space
Learn how to use the new features such as...
Font Preview

Knockout Feature

Create Circular Text

More Lessons to be added...
We have many more videos that we plan on releasing to make this course a complete set. Basically, if you see it in SCAL we will demonstrate the function and how you can use it.
Some of the future topics we have planned.
This is a dynamic course as we have more videos scheduled to be released. The list of videos that you see are all currently published.
Course Curriculum
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Start1.06 Document Panel (0:19)
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Start1.06.1 Mat Size (3:09)
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Start1.06.2 Orientation (2:30)
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Start1.06.3 Units (1:47)
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Start1.06.4 Show Grid (2:01)
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Start1.06.6 Workspace Alpha (0:45)
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Start1.06.7 Show Outlines Only (1:13)
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Start1.06.8 & 9 Show Print Margins & Registration Marks (1:55)
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Start1.06.10 Show Page Color (1:19)
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StartIntroduction
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Start3.01 Basic Shapes (5:02)
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Start3.02 Selecting (2:16)
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Start3.02.1 Basic Selection Handles (4:20)
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Start3.03 Deleting (0:50)
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Start3.04 Moving (3:27)
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Start3.05.1 Resizing (3:04)
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Start3.05.3 Autofit (2:04)
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Start3.06 Rotating (2:08)
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Start3.07.1 Skewing (1:38)
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Start3.07.2 Distorting (2:09)
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Start3.08 Mirroring and Flipping (1:12)
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Start3.09 Locking and Unlocking (2:02)
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Start3.10 Hiding and Showing (2:25)
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Start3.11 Grouping and Ungrouping (2:46)
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Start3.12 Breaking and Merging (3:33)
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Start3.13 Arranging (Ordering) Shapes (3:39)
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Start4.01 Text Options (2:16)
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Start4.07 Creating a Connected Letter Title (5:42)
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Start4.10 Stenciling Letters (4:09)
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Start4.11 Open Path Fonts (OPF) (4:05)
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Start4.12 Knockout (4:08)
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Start4.13 Title Crawl (3:07)
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Start4.14.1 Sizing Lettering for Particular Fonts (4:00)
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Start4.14.2 Sizing Letters for Welding Inside Rectangles (3:31)
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Start4.15 Other Text Effects
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Start5.01 Raster versus Vector (4:15)
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Start5.02 Finding Easy Images to Trace (9:30)
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Start5.03.1 Trace Settings (15:25)
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Start5.03.2 Monochrome Trace of a Colored Image: Effects of Contrast (3:28)
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Start5.03.3 Monochrome Trace - Effects of Smooth (1:55)
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Start5.03.4 Monochrome Trace - Effects of Despeckle and Detail (3:56)
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Start5.03.5 Monochrome Trace - Single Line Threshold and Blackout (4:09)
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Start5.03.6 PNG Files and the Alpha Channel Setting (6:04)
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Start5.03.7 Monochrome Trace - Effects of Resample (4:48)
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Start5.03.8 Monochrome Trace - Resample vs Smooth and HPF (12:52)
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Start5.03.9 Color Layer Trace (9:22)
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Start5.03.10 Single Layer Trace (8:22)
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Start5.03.11 Draw Mask Function (12:02)
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Start5.03.12 HPF Tracing Applications (10:09)
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Start5.04.1 The Draw Tool (6:28)
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Start5.04.2 Freehand Drawing (2:13)
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Start5.04.3 Brush Drawing (1:42)
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Start5.05.3 Editing the Trace (4:31)
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Start7 Key Points in SCAL 5 for Tracing (11:45)
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StartBONUS: Using the Background Mask Feature to Trace an Image (11:17)
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Start7.10 Wrapper (5:22)
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Start7.11 Lattice (6:29)
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Start7.12.1 Rhinestones Guidlines (9:39)
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Start7.12.2 Rhinestones Outlines (10:00)
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Start7.12.3 Rhinestone Fill (5:22)
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Start7.12.4 Editing Rhinstone Designs (13:07)
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Start7.12.5 Adding an Outline to a Rhinestone Design (6:59)
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Start7.12.6 Using Purchased Rhinestone Fonts (6:48)
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Start7.13 Jigsaw Puzzle (9:49)
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Start7.14 3D Rotate (7:34)
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Start7.15 3D Extrude (SCAL PRO only) (3:17)
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Start7.16 Barrel Distortion (2:05)
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Start7.17 Bulge (3:06)
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Start7.18 Canned Effect (2:05)
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Start7.19 Wave Effect (5:15)
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Start7.20 Bridge Warp (3:36)
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Start7.21 Drop Shadow (3:33)
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Start7.22 QR Code (3:48)
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Start7.23 Symmetrical Mirror (2:29)
Frequently Asked Questions
If there's a topic that current members would like to see, we can add it. We will continue to add to this course as long as we have a version 5 of SCAL. Once Craft Edge decides to move on to SCAL version 6, that is when we will stop adding to this course.