A vinyl cutter is a type of computer controlled machine small vinyl cutters look like a desktop printer like a printer controls a nozzle the computer controls the movement of a sharp blade over the surface of the material.
Vinyl cut material.
The rule of thumb is unless you have a powerful machine is designed to cut a huge number of thick materials like cricut maker which can slice through leather quite easily it s best to avoid things like leather acrylic mylar or anything excessively abrasive that will eat through.
This tutorial will show you how to cut vinyl using cricut design space which is the cricut design software used for all newer cricut models cricut explore explore air explore one explore air 2 and cricut maker if you have an older cricut machine that uses cricut craft room the software looks different from design space but the basics are the same.
What materials should you avoid cutting with a vinyl cutter.
Because vinyl lettering is cut from material and not printed placing more than three colors on a single pre mask sheet could cause unwanted overlap and bubbling of the vinyl during the production process.
The complexity of manufacturing designs with three or more colors requires separate layers to ensure that the material is smooth and free of.
While the cricut explore cricut maker machines can cut a wide variety of materials cricut does not guarantee that they will be able to cut all materials.
You may need to increase the pressure settings 2 3 times by increments of 2 4 to see a change in the cut result.