How Do I Change My Cricut Design Space To Inches

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• This tutorial is part of my Design Space Daily video series – short and snappy videos to help you learn the Cricut Design Space software. VIDEO: Changing the Grid in Cricut Design Space Watch this quick 3-minute video to find out how to change from inches to cm in Design Space on both the desktop and mobile versions of the software.
• The newer Cricut machines made things amazingly easy to expand your creativity. With the introduction to Cricut Design Space, Cricut Acess and printable transfer sheets that could now be printed and cut by inserting the images into your design space layers panel using your inkjet printer and cutting your printed image with your Cricut Machine!
• To change your load Type or material size on Windows/Mac, choose a new Material Load Type from the drop down, or select the Material Size field on the left side of the screen to adjust the material size. To change your load Type or material size on iOS or Android, tap the mat settings icon in the upper left corner.
• Because it is cloud-based, Design Space makes it possible to design here, there, and everywhere! Start a project on your iOS or Android device from the couch and finish it on the computer in your craft room. Design Space gives you access to all of your images.

1. Machine Overview

The Cricut Design Space defaults to letter spacing of 1.2, but I want each letter closer together. I would love the letters to overlap so I can cut them as a single cut. So I decreased the letter spacing to.5. You can play around with these numbers depending on the font you are using.

1. Maker
   
   1. What blades and tools work with the Maker
2. Explore Air 2
   
   1. What comes in the box?
   2. Which blades and tools work with the Air 2

Getting Started

2. Downloading & Installation of Design Space

a. Setting up your account

b. New machine set up

c. Finding the current version of Design Space

3. Pairing machine with Bluetooth

4. Cricut Access

a. Monthly, Annual, Premium

b. Access renewal

Design Space

5. Overview of Design Space

a. Design Space Cheat Sheets

a. Layers Panel Cheat Sheet

b. Canvas overview

c. Cricut vocabulary

d. Design Space FAQ

e. Using Design Space offline on iOS devices

f. Snap Mat FAQ

6. Ready To Make Projects

a. Ready To Make projects overview

b. Making a Ready To Make Project

c. Customizing a Ready To Make Project

7. Projects

a. Starting a new project

b. Saving a project

c. Accessing saved projects

d. Sharing your projects

a. Editing a shared project

e. Favoriting a project

8. Using Images in Design Space

a. Insert image overview

b. Inserting an image

8. Using Images in Design Space

a. Insert image overview

b. Inserting an image

c. Searching for images

d. Searching with filters

e. Browsing images by category

f. How to browse and search for cartridges

g. Searching for cartridges with filters

h. How to purchase images

a. Purchasing images from the mat preview

b. Purchasing images from the Cricut Image Library

i. Inserting basic shapes

j. Free images

k. Licensed Designs

l. How to link cartridges to your account?

m. Angel Policy

9. Uploading your own images

a. Upload image overview

b. Preparing artwork from Photoshop

c. Preparing to upload artwork from Illustrator

d. Preparing to upload artwork from CorelDRAW

e. Uploading pattern fills

f. Changing an uploaded image into a cut image

g.Working with uploaded photos

h. Working with zipped files in Design Space

10. Selecting images

a. Selecting a single image

b. Selecting multiple images

c. Image bounding box

11. Edit tool bar

12. Working with text

a. Adding text, selecting a font & writing

b. Text alignment

c. Text sizing

d. Text spacing

e. Curving Text

f. Ungroup to layers

g. Ungroup to letters

h. Ungroup to lines

i. Working with multiple lines of text

j. Using system fonts

k. Writing and cutting in one step

13. Layers Panel

a. Overview How much is microsoft office suite.

b. Cut, Write, Score, or Print?

c. Group and ungrouping

d. Duplicate

e. Delete

f. Changing image contour

g. Slicing images

h. Welding images

i. Welding text

j. Attach

k. Flatten to print

l. Hiding an image layer so it doesn't cut

m. Selecting a line type

n. Arranging image order

o. Layers Panel Cheat Sheet

14. Working with Color

a. Color Sync panel

b. Changing color for cutting images

c. Changing color for images with a print line type

d. Selecting pen color

15. Print then Cut

a. Print then cut overview

b. Calibrating your machine for PTC

c. Changing a standard image into a printable

d. Inserting a printable image

e. Separating printable image layers

f. Change printable layers to a solid color

g. Applying a pattern to an image layer

h. Applying a pattern to text

i. Browsing patterns

j. Editing pattern fills

k. Matching Color with Printable Images

l. Combining standard and printable images

m. Final steps to printing and cutting your project

n. Image bleed

o. Troubleshooting Print then Cut

16. Cutting projects

a. Setting Material

b. Using custom setting on the Smart Dial

c. Managing custom materials

d. Which machine cutting mat do I use?

e. Changing mat size

17. Mat preview

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a. Mat preview overview

b. Mirroring images for iron-on

c. Selecting a material size

d. Moving & Hiding on mats

e. Changing tools

18. Machine Maintenance & Troubleshooting

a. Cleaning and greasing your machine

b. Machine Dial Not Working

c. Machine dragging or tearing materials?

d. Machine not cutting materials?

e. Maker turning off unexpectedly

f. Cut results don't match preview

g. Machine making unusual noises

Cricut Products

19. Other Cricut Machines

a. What is the Cricut EasyPress 2?

a. Why the Cricut EasyPress?

b. Using the Cricut EasyPress 2

c. Cricut EasyPress: Recommended Settings

d. EasyPress Mats

e. Iron-on Protective Sheet

f. Layering Iron-on

b. Cuttlebug

20. Blades & Accessories

a. Overview of Different Blades

a. Rotary Blade

i. Calibration

b. Knife Blade

i. Calibration

ii. Prepping materials

iii. Cleaning mat

c. Scoring Wheel

i. Changing Scoring Wheel

ii. Recommended Materials

d. Bonded Fabric Blade

b. BrightPad

21. Cricut Tools

a. Pens

b. Weeding Tools

c. Tool Kits

d. Precision Cutting Tools

e. Rulers

f. Self-Healing Mats

22. Material Instructions

a. Vinyl

a. Premium Permanent Vinyl

b. Iron-on

a. Everyday Iron-on

c. Paper

d. Fabric

e. Maker Materials

f. Cricut Materials FAQ

g. Material Thickness

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23. Shop: Cricut.com

a. Account

a. Changing Account Login

b. Changing Billing & Shipping Address

c. Changing your password

d. Registering Cricut Products

b. Orders

a. Status

c. Refunds

d. Redeeming Store Credit

e. Warranty

f. Cricut Shop FAQ

Last Updated: December 13, 2018

Learn how to convert a cut file to draw with your Cricut machine. You can draw and writing with your Cricut by choosing designs that include draw/write lines. Or you can convert cut designs into drawing projects. You can combine the two as well.

This is lesson 4 in my drawing with your Cricut series. Learn how to use the pens with your Cricut machine to create a variety of accents, designs and full projects.

Converting a Cut File to Draw with Your Cricut Machine

In Cricut Design Space, you can customize design layers to cut, score, print or draw. You can not customize every single line in a design. Instead, you can customize each layer of a design. Today we'll talk about how you can use designs you already have, to create fun drawn designs using your Cricut machine.

If you are new to drawing with your Cricut Machine and aren't sure where to start.

Check out the Drawing and Writing with Cricut Get Started Guide

Materials you need for this tutorial series

• Cricut Explore machine – any version is fine
• Cricut Design Space – Cricut Access is optional
• Cricut Pens – the standard fine point black pen is a great place to start.

Today we are going to talk about:

• Setting an image layer to draw
• Layering Draw Designs
• Preview Your Drawing

Setting an image layer to draw

Images imported from the Design Space library and your own cartridges are pre-set with different functions. You can usually changes these pre-set options for each layer in the design. You can then choose which layers you'd like to have cut or printed or drawn (or scored). Here's how to set up your design to draw.

• Open or import the image you want to use on to your Design Space canvas.
• Select/click the layer of the image you want to set as drawing. If the layers are flattened (usually as a printed image), you will first need to unflatten the design. Some images can not be unflattened and are only to be used as printed designs, these designs can not be converted to drawn designs.
• Choose 'writing' from the palette options that appear.
• Choose the pen color from this same options palette. It is important to pay attention to the pen colors you've chosen. Every new pen color selected will result in a pause in the drawing process and a prompt to change your pen.
• Attach drawing layers together how you'd like them to be drawn.

Layering Draw Designs

We'll talk about design layout more later, but to get started, I wanted to give you a quick overview of how to set up a design to draw. When you first import an image into Design Space, there are usually different cut layers. In my own designs, I have included specific draw lines to coordinate with the individual cut designs. Sometimes, if you set a design to draw only, some of the design's lines will overlap each other and not look as nice as they would if they were cut and draw. So, to solve this, you will have to determine which draw lines you want to keep and possibly hide some of the design. See this example below.

Preview Your Drawing

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You will be able to preview what your design will look like before you actually cut or draw. Pay attention to your canvas layout and your virtual cutting mat layout to make sure it all looks as you are envisioning. What you see on screen will be pretty close to what you should end up with on paper.

I like to test my drawings on basic paper before using my good final paper. This gives me the opportunity to make sure the pens I've picked will work well and the draw will turn out like I expect.

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Make this project yourself. I've set up a Cricut Design Space Canvas so you can practice working with drawing layers and designs with your Cricut.

Keep drawing with your Cricut!
Check out the Drawing and Writing with Cricut Get Started Guide

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Learn more tips and tricks and find other tutorials to help you draw and write with your Cricut machine. If you have a question about this design feature, send me a note!