Glitter and other rough textures can dull your blade quite easily.
Glittre vinyl cricut not cutting deep.
The first port of call is to use your machines preset cut settings so for example in silhouette studio or cricut design space start with their default cut settings especially if you are using their own brand products eg.
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Select images and size and load the mat into your machine.
Do you want to cut a material not on the list of materials.
When you do this you will be given a drop down menu in the cricut design space cut screen.
Default cut settings rule.
Heat transfer vinyl glitter sign vinyl faux leather card etc.
Cricut machine does not cut through my material if your cricut explore or cricut maker machine is not cutting all the way through your material or is only scoring the material this issue can usually be resolved with some basic troubleshooting.
You can adjust the cut pressure your cricut cuts with from about 120 to over 300.
Your happy dance is cut short by groans of frustration when your htv does not weed easy sometimes the blade did not cut deep enough which results in parts of.
Is your cricut cutting into your mat.
Cutting glitter vinyl with a cricut machine.
Now the cricut explore is perfectly calibrated to cut your glitter vinyl at the right depth.
Be sure that you actually have the image set to cut and not print or write.
Always test cut prior to starting so you can find out sooner than later.
You create a great design in cricut design space and decide it s destined to be on a t shirt.
Read the whole post before changing anything are you using a new brand of vinyl and your cricut just won t cut it.
It s happened to all of us.
You can also change the blade used to cut a material or the number of times it will cut.
Select glitter vinyl under the custom vinyl options.
How to use custom material settings.
This allows the machine to cut without the glitter getting stuck on the blade and in the housing.
Place vinyl liner side down onto lightgrip mat.
You send your siser heat transfer vinyl through the cutter and do a happy dance as you unload the material.
If you are using a piece of loose glitter cardstock mirror your image and turn over the paper.
How to make use a test cut in cricut design space plus.
