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  1. Posted

    On 1/26/2022 at 8:29 AM, mhristau said:

    What am I doing in Illustrator that causes these diagonal lines (travel instructions) to become cut lines in Cricut Design Space?

    "What am I doing wrong?" is a little hard to troubleshoot, when we don't know what and how you're doing things.

    Would be helpful to know what version of AI you're using, and how you're exporting/importing to DS. File format, etc.

    Have you tried to export it in another format that is DS friendly? What formats are DS friendly?

  3. Posted

    It's a 2-color layout, I can understand getting accidental bubbles in the top layer, but how did you manage to get bubbles in the bottom layer too? The bottom layer is never lifted from the backing.

    As previously suggested, did you troll YouTube to find other videos on how to layer vinyl? Because that's one of the fastest ways up this learning curve.

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  5. Posted

    The hollow core rods are functional, but the first thing I did was swap them out for solid rods, it doesn't flex as much under the weight of a new 50-yard roll of reflective.

     I don't have a lot of working room, so I while on a good day, I can cut about 200-yards of vinyl, I will only do it in 3-ft. to 4-ft. increments, especially since the "guaranteed accuracy" length is just under 7-ft. I take the time to roll what is finished before I have the cutter do the next set.

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  8. Posted

    17 hours ago, MZ SKEETER said:

    Your welcome. If you have done a factory reset it would be there until you changed it it back too outside again. 

    Hmm ... i wonder if that's what happened. Last month there was a power outage while I was out of the house. I keep the cutter on a battery backup, and have a remote switch for on the plug for the cutter. I didn't really think anything about it, until I needed to use the cutter, and the it wouldn't switch on. I guess when the power kicked back on, for whatever reasons, the battery backup didn't catch the surge and passed it on to the switch and fried it. Still didn't think anything of it, but when I went to cut, everything was as if it was factory reset, all the conditions I had previous set were missing, and it was just weird.

    On another note, I did hear back from Graphtec, and while I was able to get the humming to go away with the change of the blade holder, tech support said, "This suggests a failing cutting head, and possibly a bad motor. I won’t know until we get in a bit more. The only thing I can think of that would relate the humming being caused by a blade holder is if the blade holder was one of the metal, after market holders."

     

    I will be letting them know, that it was actually an aftermarket blade holder that made the humming go away, since I only had the original one that shipped with the cutter :P While I am extremely happy that I got the cutter to stop humming, I'm almost wanting to be able to recreate it the issue. I hope the power outage didn't do anything wonky to my machine. I don't want to have to unplug / re-plug each time I need to use it.

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  10. Posted

    So the adventure is turning out to be gift that keeps on giving. I managed to borrow a friend's blade holder, and the humming (more or less) went away - yea!  But now there's a new issue where when I do a test cut for force, out of the 3 triangle and boxes it does, the first triangle has a short little cut at the bottom. I've replicated over and over again. The weird thing is if I put the stock blade holder back in, it will do that little triangle line on all three triangles. I'm sure y'all have some wisdom that you'll be be able share so that I can just get this machine working the way it used to.

    It is also intermittently doing a tiny curve thing at the start or end of a cut, but it doesn't do it to all of them. I laid it out as two decals in a single run, and sometimes it will do it, and sometimes not. Sometimes on just one of the two. I've checked the nodes and there isn't anything that should be causing this squiggly.

     

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  11. Posted

    4 hours ago, darcshadow said:

    I delayed it once but it installed anyway the next time I rebooted. Other than stupid rearranging of things and removing stuff I used frequently, it's not bad. Took me an hours or so to figure out how to undo stupid things they changed. Hate the new start menu. They also change the right click on files things. They took away the send to option and hid it in a sub menu. I use the send to all the time! Took me a good while to find online how to get the send to back. Seems like they do a survey, figure out what people use the most, and then get rid of them.

    Well, then I can honestly say that I am not looking forward to Win11. I do know that at some point I will have to install and get familiar with, since a lot of the calls I field are more help desk level, but for now, I'm kind of content tell people that I don't have Win11, so I can't do any walk-throughs on how to remedy what it broke :P

  18. Posted

    33 minutes ago, Guest Steve k said:

    I am a New beginner I bought a second hand vinyl cutter UScutter the person about it from do not have the PSN need a little advice of where I can find it it is not located on the outside of the printer

    Aloha and welcome to the forum. If you take the time to register for it, your post will go up immediately, and registration is simple and free.

    I would help us to know what model cutter you have, or can you ask the person that you purchased it from?

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  19. Posted

    18 minutes ago, Shane Quale said:

    Hello Everyone,

    I am currently doing some layered graphics. It’ll be 4 total layers with Oracal 651. What’s  a perfect clear tape to get the job done right?

    I should add that it’s a larger project.

    When I try to add a layer to the first layer my tape won’t peel off it’s way to high tack. Thanks

    Unfortunately, there might not be a 'perfect clear tape.' It's all about function and personal preference. Lots of user's here get the same results using different brand of tape.

    I'm not quite sure if I understand you correctly. After taping up your top layer, you are unable to remove the backing from the newly taped top layer?

  21. Posted

    Q1: Why is it, when I use the copy feature on the control panel, the X never starts at the original X position? The carriage is just a smidgen to the left, and continues to progressively scoot the left.

    Q2: The carriage, is starting to make a physical humming sound when it goes from left to right (but never right to left). The humming is almost to the point of chatter. When the machine is powered off, the carriage will slide easily back and forth with no out of the ordinary resistance. I've checked the guide rails were the various bearing make contact, and everything seem to be normal. From what I can see and feel, all the bearings will roll without any stuttering in both direction. Do I need to take the top off or remove the carriage cover for a better inspection?

    Ugh, I just want to get through this job without a hitch.

    Mahalo in advance!