Oh! No! What's happening?
If you are a heavy user of the Cricut machine, from time to time, Cricut has troubles such as this: Cricut doesn’t cut through the materials!
As I troubleshooting with my Cricut, I thought of sharing this experience!
This is what the official Cricut site says to do
Here is the link to Cricut Help Center
Gray text here is outlined guides from Cricut Help Center, and blue text is my opinions and experiences.
• Select the right material setting.
• Make sure to match the dial setting and the material on the mat.
• If you are using a “custom” material setting, choose the right material on the Cricut Design Space.
The first thing to check is to match the setting to the material you are using.
It didn’t apply to my situation, though. I use card stock most of the time.
In other words, I rarely change the setting– meaning — it did not fix my problem! Next!
• Remove the blade from Clamp housing, then clean it.
• Inspect the blade and housing.
• Make sure to use a Crict brand blade.
• Once checked, run a test cut.
Yes, it is important to use the Cricut brand blade. I have used random brand blades before, but they don’t last very long.
I have just replaced the blade. So it should be the blade problem. Next!
• “Open the Manage Custom Materials page through the account menu and increase the pressure for your material setting by 2-4, then perform a test cut. You may need to increase the pressure settings 2-3 times by increments of 2-4 to see a change in the cut result.”
The “Manage Custom Materials” is located inside Cricut Design Space.
You can find it from the menu on the left upper corner.
After trial and error several times, changing the pressure setting worked for me! Yay!
• Test the machine if it cuts other materials. (make sure to change the material setting each time.)
• If there is no problem with the other materials, the problem is something to do with the current material you are trying to cut.
I didn’t have to go through this point because the problem was solved in the previous step.
• Clear the cache and cookies in your browser.
• Run another test cut.
• Try a different browser.
Declutter your desktop keeps your work organized. I tried this halfway and stopped.
As much as I wanted to get rid of cookies, dumping the entire thing will cause other problems such as kicked out from every server, social media, and so on. I do keep all the passwords in one place for such occasions. Still, it is almost annoying and tedious work.
If you don’t keep passwords for all the things you have, this could lead to some other trouble.
For that, I recommend doing it when it’s really necessary, and if you can, it might be better to go through manually rather than “trash all.”
