Cricut Explore Air Not Cutting In Specific Area On Mat

If using a cricut explore air 2 or cricut maker in fast mode turn fast mode off and attempt your cut again.

Cricut explore air not cutting in specific area on mat. Life has been a bit crazy recently. The machine starts cutting and suddenly it is eating your material up. Smart set dial is not working. The maximum cutting area on a 12 x 12 30 5 cm x 30 5 cm mat is 11 5 x 11 5 29 cm x 29 cm.

My mat is crooked when loaded into my cricut machine. So today i m going to go over the five things you need to pay attention to when cutting on your cricut explore or cricut. My explore machine pauses or stops when cutting writing or scoring my project. Press the unload mat button and then press the load mat button.

The cricut may think that the mat is already loaded in the machine. Firmware update cricut explore and maker machines. Remove the blade housing from the machine then remove the blade and check for any debris inside the housing or on the blade. Cut sensor light does not turn on during print then cut.

And i guarantee it has happened to many others. So let s dive in and find a solution so you can get back to crafting. If this does not help proceed to 4. Cricut explore manual step 3.

But sometimes the cuts aren t as clean as we d like and it s not always obvious why or what we should do to fix it. This has happened to me so many times. Using the canvas panel resize the canvas to the maximum size that can be cut on the mat. To change the position of your design on the cutting mat all you need to do is select your design and manually drag it to change its position.

Just remembered i made this post. Reduce pressure settings for that material type in the manage custom materials screen by increments of 2 4. The cricut cutting machine is an amazing invention. In order to ensure optimal performance calibrate your cricut imagine before using it for the first time and whenever an image cuts outside of the printed area of the image.

Press the reset all button to clear all commands and then press the load mat button again. The canvas represents your mat but will not cut. If you find that the blade is not cutting out images within their default borders using this recalibration may solve the issue. You will be taken back to the design screen and the project canvas will be visible in the background.

Wherever you drag the design on the mat the position will be locked in and your cricut will cut it out in that exact position on your mat. First things the check for as to why the cricut will not. For a 12 x 12 mat the maximum cut size is 11 5 x 11 5. You will have the option to continue with a.

If either the height or width of an image is greater than 11 5 29 cm when you select make it you will receive an alert that one of your images is too large for a 12 x 12 30 5 cm x 30 5 cm mat. To answer your question in at least one case it pulled the 12 x 12 mat in and began the cut but as it pushed the mat back out to do the cut towards the top of the mat it pushed the mat all the way out and started cutting on itself. If this does not help proceed to 5.