Cricut Explore Air 2 👹
A closed driver & linux hostile line of Personal Paper cutters, which aim to be a nice easy to use CNC paper cutter. - Cricut Hacks Wiki
Advice prefer to use a Silhouette
They encrypted the motors as DRM. Not all companies do that. DRMs restrict everything you do with your device. It is illegal to circumvent unless there’s an active 3-year exemption for it and the use case. Exemptions are at: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-10-28/pdf/2021-23311.pdf
Making sure you can only use it with design space is DRM. It is hard to use a Cricut without Design Space.
Design Space is mostly online.
You have to log in to use your Cricut
DRM is defective by design. https://www.defectivebydesign.org/
I use a Silhouette Cameo 4 with no DRM(software I use is InkCut with modifications)
# Linux un-support
They encrypted the motors as DRM
- Controlling the Cricut Personal (desktop cutter) via Linux
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# Designing outside
# Cricut Design Space
It is needed to control the printer
But Design can be made outside of it and imported as SVG
# window
Cannot be downloaded from linux (recognized as mac)
When launched from wine
- there is a font issue => no text for button
- They are opening a browser to identify
# Android
- Import SVG on android device
- open design space
- start a new project
- tap upload / or “+” button and coose “Browse Files” to locate your .svg - Didn’t found such option -> there is no way to import svg here
- Proceed to “Make” (cut) usign the Design Space Mobile Flow
# Freecad
# Inkscape
- Inkscape to Cricut Design Space Tutoria
- Inkscape to Cricut Design
- How to create free SVG files for your Cricut using Inkscape
- Use Inkscape to make an SVG (Tutorial)
# Howto
# Comment modifier un fichier SVG dans Cricut Design Space
Using calc it’s possible to isolate part of the design.
# Alternative to design space
- running in wine / download - with windows user agent