BE SURE TO VIEW A NEW VIDEO ON IMPORTING CAFE FILES INTO THE CRICUT EXPLORE BY CLICKING HERE
UPDATE - AUGUST 1ST 2014
STARTING AUGUST 1ST ALL NEWLY RELEASED SETS WILL ALREADY HAVE THE MEASUREMENTS INCLUDED IN THE SET - YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO DO THE STEPS BELOW
For some reason when you go to import a cutting file into your Cricut Explore it doesn't come in as the size intended so for today's tip, I will show you how to get the right sizing for when you import the Cafe files into the Cricut Explore.
YOU WILL NEED TO DO THESE PROCEDURES BEFORE IMPORTING INTO THE CRICUT EXPLORE
I WILL USE THE 2013 NUMBER SHAPED CARD FOR THIS TUTORIAL - to follow along, click on the ADD TO CART button to get the file for free:
1. First extract the file (normally by just right clicking on the set AND then clicking EXTRACT ALL):
2. Double click on the svg folder:
3. This cutting set has 3 files:
4. You will need to Double click on each image-file one at a time. After you double click it will open up the image in INTERNET EXPLORE or if you have INKSCAPE it will open up in there.
Do the following if it opens in INTERNET EXPLORE:
Double click on the image (I did the first one that read FOLD.SVG) WHICH came up large in INTERNET EXPLORE ...... then right click on the screen - image and then click VIEW SOURCE:
5. Look down on line 3 or 4 and you will see the WIDTH AND HEIGHT of the entire page - this image should state: width="5.275in" height="7.97667in
CLICK IMAGE TO SEE LARGER: - I have highlighted in blue
WRITE THIS DOWN....this is the intended size for that image or the set of images on that page.
6. You will need to do this FOR EACH image - so for all three in this tutorial sample. THIS IS ESPECIALLY important for the images that have SEVERAL images on one page - like the SINGLE NUMBERS image has 4 numbers on it:
7. After you have written down all of the sizes for all 3 of the image files you are ready to import these into your Cricut Explorer.
8. Import them one at a time - after you import the first image DO NOT UNGROUP - change the sizing first and then you can ungroup.
9. Follow the same procedure as number 8 above - importing each image by itself and changing the size BEFORE YOU UNGROUP.
10. Now that all of the files are on the mat (THEY MAY BE VERY LARGE WITH LOTS ON THE MAT) but at least they will all be the same size) you can then UNGROUP, change line colors resize as a whole smaller or larger and then cut.
11. You may run into a problem where some of the files WON'T UNGROUP - most of the older files will not ungroup from the Cutting Cafe, this wasn't an issue before because some cutters have an erase function that the Cricut Explore doesn't - you will probably have to use the CONTOUR function for this.
12. Another problem that I have noticed on a few files is that if there is a folded card on one image sheet with a few other images, sometimes all of the other images are sized to work with each other while the folded piece isn't - those you will have to enlarge to match up with the others.
IF YOU HAVE INKSCAPE installed on your computer, after you double click on the image it might open up in INKSCAPE:
1. If you look on the third section down on the picture above you will see the measurements, but these measurements are in px so you will need to click on the drop menu and CHANGE TO in (for inches) - see red circle below:
This will give you the measurements in inches.........do this for each image, WRITE THE MEASUREMENTS DOWN and then follow the same procedures starting at number 7 above.
If you have any questions or run into any problems, please email me at [email protected]
Thank you
Regina
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