The Silhouette Connect® plug-in license key is offered at a cost of $39.99. The license allows the user to utilize the plug-in on up to three different computers.
I have a Silhouette SD (recently replaced by the portrait). Its a great little paper/vinyl cutter, but the software it comes with (Silhouette Studio) isn’t all the great for working on complex designs. I much prefer to work in Adobe Illustrator, and until recently I had a pretty good setup working. Then came OSX Mavericks…
UPDATE: Oh look, and now they advertise this works. I wish they posted this 2 years ago.
After upgrading to OSX Mavericks, Cutting Master 2 stopped working. No big deal, this happened with Lion. I’ll just download the latest… Oh, and that doesn’t work either.
In the mean time, Silhouette Connect was released! Its actually a much nicer version of CM2. The interface is great, and it has the same cutting settings that Silhouette Studio offers and the layer and color settings of CM2. Woot! Well worth the money.
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I have all my Adobe software installed into a folder called “Adobe” inside of Applications. This is not the standard location and sadly the Silhouette Connect installer can’t be pointed at it directly (lame). No problem I thought, I’ll just create a symlink from where it would normally get installed. No luck 😦
Yup, another win for Silhouette America. Why am I always hacking their products to get them working?
After much debugging, which included modifying dtruss to redirect its output to a file of my choice (wow strace is nicer (ye, yes,  dtrace is even more badass)), compiling a program that maps .vol files to their normal path, and compiling a program to create hard links, I was able to figure out and solve the problem. It turns out that the installer lists all the contents of /Applications/ looking at their filetype and symlinks are only being seems as “symlinks” instead of being resolved to their src directory. So what we really need is a hardlink.
- Copy and paste the hardlink code from this stack overflow answer into a file called hardlink.c
- Open the Terminal App and inside it run:
- > gcc -o hardlink /path/to/hardlink.c
- > ./hardlink /Applications/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator CS5 /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS5
- Re-run the Silhouette Connect installer. It should find Illustrator this time!
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1- Open up Silhouette Studio.
2- Go to Help then click on Upgrade Silhouette Studio.
3- A new window will appear.
4- Fill in the information to upgrade. (1) email address you use in the silhouette store. (2) Password you use in the silhouette store. (3) The 16 digit code you received when you purchased the upgrade.
Finally once everything is filled in click on submit (4). You will need an internet connection to submit the upgrade code.
5- Once the software has verified your information via the internet the next icon will appear. Click on this.
6- Finally click finish.
7- Note- that if you want to find your upgrade code, you can go to your account in the silhouette store and find a copy of your serial number.
1- Open up Silhouette Studio.
2- Go to Help then click on Upgrade Silhouette Studio.
3- A new window will appear.
4- Fill in the information to upgrade. (1) email address you use in the silhouette store. (2) Password you use in the silhouette store. (3) The 16 digit code you received when you purchased the upgrade.
Finally once everything is filled in click on submit (4). You will need an internet connection to submit the upgrade code.
5- Once the software has verified your information via the internet the next icon will appear. Click on this.
6- Finally click finish.
7- Note- that if you want to find your upgrade code, you can go to your account in the silhouette store and find a copy of your serial number.
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