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Had this happen to me look to make sure the con rods are not catching on the plastic just had to file the slot bigger and all was fine

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This is absolutely fantastic i would never have thought foam would be such a good materal well done!

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I have to admit i really do like this layout, there is something about it that makes me feel it is real. Can't explain what it is. Congratulations on a superb piece of modelling.

Like the trees, they work very well

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Can you please tell me who's and which brick papers you use.
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300gsm card would be somewhere in the region of .014" or about .33mm.
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Thanks for posing the video, i am supprised that the Cricut Air cuts 1mm plastic. If you could post the settings that would be great. The Maker has not got a pre-defined setting for that, in fact if you use the knife blade you cannot modifiy the settings at all, i have asked support for some setting...

I will try to keep this thread updated as best i can. After several conversations with the technical support team there is an undisclosed (at least to me) on going problem with png import files that they are looking into. I also found out that the actual cutting mat size is US Letter. I have asked i...

Hello Mike, I have ony been messing with it for a few days so some of the information i have may not be completely correct, but here goes 1. This machine does not import pdfs, it does jpg svg bmp png dxf, i have been working with the png files so far. 2. Every time i import a file into Design Space ...

PS You cat looks a serious dude. Her name was Sophie she was a rescue at 10 years old and quite overweight. She was very private at first but got to know us with time. I used to take her for her shots once a year and the vet would give her the once over. We had here for 7 years, the last time i too...

Here we go again.. Using inkscape i made a 50mm box and imported it into cricut design space the size was changed to just over 20mm. took the png and printed a copy onto plain white paper on my mono lazer to check the file was ok, measured the box at 52mm. 1 God only knows why the imported file into...

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Well ok here we go. Machine is now in my gruby little hands early christmas (Must have been a good little boy..). I was going to attach it to an old notebook but it was sooooooo slow gave that idea up and ordered a long USB cable this arrived today and i have been having a play with it pluged into m...

It will depend on the software for the cutter, if it can import from PDF then it's easy, otherwise you will have to convert twice, PDF to JPG (or BMP etc.) and then into your cutter/plotter driver. Are you going to mill the insulating gaps or draw the tracks with etch resist, then dunk them in the ...