Sure Cuts A Lot software for Cricut Cutters. January 3. 1, 2. 00. This guide is for all Cricut owners who would like to expand their cutting possibilities with Sure Cuts A Lot. This software is necessary if you want to use your computer to run a Cricut Expression or Cricut Personal cutter. So that your Cricut will accept commands from SCAL Sure Cuts A Lot, you will need to down load the free Cricut Design Studio firmware upgrade for your machine from the Cricut website. Hook your Cricut cutter to your computer with a standard USB printer cable and follow the instructions for installing the updated firmware. You will need one Cricut cartridge to get the cutter to load paper and cut. The Cricut will not work at all without a cartridge plugged into it. You can use images from the cartridge, but only by using the command keyboard on the Cricut machine. However, you will not be able to access the cartridge library when using  SCAL  Then, load the SCAL software into your computer. This software is great for cutting words and letters from your computers True Type fonts and images from the Wing Dings and Web Dings lists. When you import letters and images for cutting, you will size, weld, and position them using SCAL. Alligator Alley Program Notes Theatre there. The work area in SCAL looks just like the sticky cutting mats used with Cricut. Where ever the image or letters are positioned on the digital mat, that is where the Cricut blade will cut them from on the actual cutting mat. Except for the paper Load and Unload buttons on the Cricut machine, you will use SCAL to set and control all Cricut functions, including cutting speed, sizing, positioning, and to start cutting. Yesudas Carnatic Songs. It is always a good idea to use the preview function in SCAL to see what will actually be cut. The image andor letters will change to red, indicating where the blade will actually cut. Curso De Filosofia Politica Eduardo Bittar Pdf. Some experimentation is recommended before commiting to a real project. FOR ADVANCED USERSHeres where the real fun begins  To get the most from SCAL, you will need a drawing program I use Corel Draw and Microsoft Word to import clip art images. You can import internet images directly to Corel, or your drawing program. As Corel does, your drawing program must be able to use and save images to SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphics. Images need to be in SVG format to work in SCAL. Not all clip art or images imported from the internet will work, only ones that are, or can be converted to SVG. Clip art images that are WMF will work, JPEGS and GIF images will not, at least as far as I can tell. Just mouse over the clip art image or right click properties to see if it is WMF. To use clip art, open Microsoft Word, find and place a clip art image into the Word document, select it, then click Edit from the toolbar and select Edit Picture. This places the image into an editing work area. You will need to click and drag the image from its box to a blank area on the page. If you dont, Cricut will cut out the box the clip art image comes in along with the image, which is a waste of paper. Sometimes, if you allow the cutter  to cut out the box, it also snips off part of the image. Remember, always use the Preview function in SCAL to see what Cricut will actually cut displays as red. Some clip art images are multi layered. In order to pull layered images from the box, click on the first usually smallest part, then hold down the shift key on your computer keyboard while clicking on the remaining parts before dragging them out of the box. You will only want the essential image componants from more complex images. Cricut is a shape cutter, not a printer. Images that are too complicated will end up looking like confetti. When you have pulled a satisfactory image from its box, right click and copy. Now, open your drawing program again, I use Corel Draw and paste the image in the work area. I find it is usually best to save the image as an SVG file right away, then delete the image from Corel and import the saved SVG back into Corel to work on it the original is still on the Word edit page until you delete it. For some reason, Corel wont weld image componants together unless they have been saved to SVG and imported back in welding combines all componants so Cricut will cut the image as one piece. When you are finished with the image in the drawing program, re save or Export it as an SVG file again. Now open SCAL and import the SVG. It will appear on the digital cutting mat, ready for sizing and cutting. You will need to do some experimenting with images until you get used to what SCAL needs in order to produce the best cuts. Always preview the image in SCAL to see what Cricut will actually cut this will eliminate a lot of wasted time and paper. I have also searched the internet for SVG images with some success. One time I found a dinosaur search dinosaur SVG with three overlapping pieces representing the under belly. In Corel, I sized the dino then pulled the belly pieces off and copied their height and width measurement on paper maintaing the original positioning perspective as they were on the body. I also wrote the dino body measurements on paper. Then I saved the belly parts grouping as one SVG image and the main body without the belly parts as the second SVG. I later used the saved numbers to re size the images in SCAL by simply typing them into the height and width boxes in the Shape. Sure Cuts A Lot Version 2 Download' title='Sure Cuts A Lot Version 2 Download' />Properties window. I had to log the sizes because the images did not import to SCAL in their correct perspective. I cut the two images separately with Cricut the body from dark green paper, the belly grouping from light green paper. Then I glued the belly pieces onto the body where they belong. It gave the dino an almost 3 D effect, very cool. I have one important tip for you concerning some clip art and imported images. When I used a deer image from clip art, it came in three pieces, the main body, half of the head with one antler, and one small tip of  the antler. I selected all three pieces, dragged, copied, pasted in Corel, saved to SVG, re imported the SVG back to Corel, welded the pieced together, re saved the image to SVG, then imported it to SCAL. However, when, and only when, I previewed the deer image in SCAL, it showed an additional line between the tip of the antler piece and the head, which would have caused Cricut to cut off part of the head and antler. I worked and worked to resolve this problem until I finally figured out a solution. On the SCAL digital cutting mat, there is a dotted line just to the inside of the measuring guide. 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