![]() Not a very good first impression of what was supposed to be an impressive new program. I downloaded the DS program yesterday, so I could play with it, and Linda W, waited and waited for the program to load!!! What? I walked away for an hour and a half!!! And it was still loading!!!! I finally killed it and low and behold, it had loaded. I knew instinctively that if it's a PC product, no matter how much hype they advertised, it would be glitchy! Your review confirmed that to me. I finally took the plunge and bought a Silhouette Portrait two months ago for Christmas (2013), and from day 1, have had NO problems, just beautiful results!! News of the Explore came out just after my Portrait purchase. I've experienced glitchy problems with CCR for years, and just felt like that was the way life would be forever. I work at Michael's as a PaperEd Instructor, so have access to the E and E2 (and we just got the display Explore-but no cords, so can't use it). I have had my original Cricut since 2008. You can only have one canvas open at a time.Once you have everything where you want it you press cut and DS sorts everything by colour and moves everything that's the same colour to a cutting mat. It's more like your desk where you toss everything you're working with on it. The mat canvas sits at X 1.0" and Y 1.0" instead of at 0" (The screen you design on isn't actually a mat.There are no cutting boundary indicators on the canvas so you won't know something is too big or goes outside the cutting boundary until you click the Go button.So, I'm sure it used to show you the name of the cart in the layers box, but now it doesn't even do that! But the layers box will tell you the name of the cart. Right clicking doesn't show you which font/image you have used. ![]() That's a pretty easy thing to fix though. With the Y coordinate you have to hover to the right of the box until you see the little "I beam" then click and drag backwards to select the figure. To change the X coordinate you just drag your mouse over the figure in the box and you can overtype it. (The handles have since been moved to the corners of the image.) (The same applies to the middle top, bottom and right handles.) This makes moving image horizontally or vertically on its X or Y measurement impossible unless you repeatedly use the arrows on your keyboard (because holding down the arrow doesn't work) or you use the X & Y coordinates in the Edit menu. The middle left handle doesn't move the image to the left, it stretches it.(Instead you click the Hide/Unhide button and that image won't appear on the Cut screen. Can't move images that you don't want to cut off to the side of the canvas as they are placed back within the cutting boundary.I wanted to make a card base the other day that was 12x12. ![]() They had an amazing opportunity to make their new machine able to cut a true 12x12 image and they didn't take it. I think PC really did themselves a disservice here. If the image is larger than 12" wide, when you click the Go button you will get an error saying the image is too large for the mat.
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