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!
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.
Contents
- code repository
- tutorial
- 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:
| Paper size | standard* | japanese** | poker | poker_half | bridge | domino |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
letter | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
tabloid | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
a4 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
a3 | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
archb | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| 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 |
| Card size | Inches | Millimeters |
|---|---|---|
standard* | 2.48 x 3.46 | 63 x 88 |
japanese** | 2.32 x 3.39 | 59 x 86 |
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 |
domino | 1.75 x 3.5 | 44.45 x 88.9 |
* including: Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Lorcana, One Piece, Digimon, Star Wars: Unlimited, and Flesh and Blood.
** including: Yu-Gi-Oh!.