Silhouette Card Maker

Ever wanted to make your own custom card game but without the hassle of a craft knife, a rotary cutter, or a paper guillotine? How about making your own proxies to playtest your favorite TCG?

You can do it all with the press of a button and a cutting machine! And I can show you how!

If this is your first time here, check out the tutorial! Please join our Discord server too!

Demo

Watch me cut 104 cards in 26 minutes without breaking a sweat!

Purpose

The purpose of this repo is to enable you to use a Silhouette cutting machine to create card games and proxies. Proxies are only intended to be used for casual play and playtesting.

Proxies should be easily identifiable as proxies. You may not use this repo to create counterfeit cards to decieve people or to play in sanctioned tournaments. You are only permitted to sell cards if you are the full privileged copyright holder.

code repository
tutorial
supply list
create_pdf.py, a script for laying out your cards in a PDF
offset_pdy.py, a script for adding an offset to your PDF
cutting_templates/, a directory containing Silhoutte Studio cutting templates
calibration/, a directory containing offset calibration sheets
examples/, a directory containing sample games
plugins/, a directory containing scripts for streamlining card image acquisition

Supported Sizes

This project supports the following card and paper sizes, with more in the future:

Format	`letter`	`tabloid`	`a4`	`a3`	`archb`
`standard`	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
`standard_double`	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌
`japanese`	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌
`poker`	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
`poker_half`	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌
`bridge`	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
`bridge_square`	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
`tarot`	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
`domino`	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
`domino_square`	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌

Card size	Inches	Millimeters	Notes
`standard`	2.48 x 3.46	63 x 88	MTG Pokémon Lorcana One Piece Digimon Star Wars: Unlimited Flesh and Blood
`standard_double`	4.96 x 3.46	126 x 88	MTG oversized Planechase Archenemy Commander
`japanese`	2.32 x 3.39	59 x 86	Yu-Gi-Oh!
`poker`	2.5 x 3.5	63.5 x 88.9
`poker_half`	1.75 x 2.45	44.45 x 62.23
`bridge`	2.25 x 3.5	57.15 x 88.9
`bridge_square`	2.25 x 2.25	57.15 x 57.15
`tarot`	2.75 x 4.75	69.85 x 120.65
`domino`	1.75 x 3.5	44.45 x 88.9
`domino_square`	1.75 x 1.75	44.45 x 44.45

Paper size	Inches	Millimeters
`letter`	8.5 x 11	215.9 x 279.4
`tabloid`	11 x 17	279.4 x 431.8
`a4`	8.3 x 11.7	210 x 297
`a3`	11.7 x 16.5	297 x 420
`archb`	12 x 18	304.8 x 457.2

Silhouette Card Maker

Demo

Purpose

Contents

Supported Sizes