Creating a Rhinestone Brush

1. Select the “Ellipse Tool” from the tools toolbar on the left hand side and
hold down “ctrl” to create a perfect circle to represent a rhinestone.
2. The sizing can now be changed via the “Property Toolbar.” Enter your desired height and
width of the rhinestone. It is usually best to make the circles slightly larger than the width of the
rhinestones you will be using.
3. You will now have a circle that you can select and modify the coloring if desired.
4. Go to “Window>Dockers” and turn all three of the following docks on by clicking on them.
If there is a check next to the current dock it is already opened.
“Symbol Manager,” “Artistic Media” and “Properties.”
5. Select the circle, and change the stroke width in the “Properties” dock under the “Outline” tab.
The width will need to be set to “Hairline.”
6. Once you have both docks open select the circle and click and drag it into the
“Symbol Manager.” It will appear in the menu and you can then change its name to something that
will be easily recognizable later, such as the rhinestone size.
7. Now switch to the “Artistic Media” dock and click the “Save” icon, located at the bottom of the dock.
8. Select “Object Sprayer” for the kind of stroke to create and click “OK.”
9. Name your new object, and click “Save.” Your new object will be available at the end of the list in the
“Artistic Media” dock.

Applying Rhinestones to Path

1. Open/Create your vectored design.

2. Select your design and then click your created object sprayer in the “Artistic Media” dock.
3. You will notice that the object spacing may be very high. The spacing setting can be changed in the
“Property Toolbar” with the “Dabs/Spacing of Object(s) to be Sprayed” option. A good place to start is .2”.
4. Click the “Select Tool” and click and hold to drag an outline around your design. Release the mouse
button to select your design.
5. To break the design apart in order to edit the individual rhinestones you will need to go to
“Arrange>Break Artistic Media Group Apart.” Then go to “Arrange>Ungroup.”
6. Finally, you can edit the positioning of each rhinestone and once done delete out the black outline and
you will be ready to send it to your cutter.

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