Bookmarks - What are they?

Cricut CraftRoom Bookmarks are a convenient way for you to keep track of which Cricut cartridges you own.

• To bookmark your carts click the Options menu, then the CraftRoom tab.

•  Click the Edit Bookmarks button

• Click the green Add button next to the cart you want to Bookmark. 

• If you bookmark the wrong cart just click the brown Remove button.

• Use the scroll bar to move through the list.

• You can use the drop down Filter box to list particular carts eg. just the Imagine carts. 

• When you have finished adding your bookmarks press the Continue button to return to the main CCR screen.

Now when you are select a cart you can click on the drop down Filter box and select Bookmarks. Only the carts you have bookmarked will appear in the list.

Note: Bookmarking your cartridges is different to linking your cartridges. When you bookmark a cartridge you will still have to insert the cartridge into the Cricut to cut your design... unless you have also linked it to your CCR account.

The Linking function hasn't been added to CCR yet, but when it is added you will be able to link your carts to your CraftRoom account so that you don't have to insert the cart into the machine. You can only link your carts to one CraftRoom account.

Painters tape and the Imagine - be careful where you put it!

Here's something I stumbled over today. I was using CCR and cutting an image from Sweet Tooth Boxes. (I love that cart by the way). I currently only have the mat that came with my Imagine and it's starting to get less tacky. So to make sure my cardstock stayed put I used some blue painters tape to hold it down (just like I do with my other Cricuts.)

I sent the image off to cut, inserted the mat and pressed the Go button on the Imagine screen (as per the usual instructions on the CCR screen.) The mat was pulled into the Imagine but didn't cut. So I cancelled the cut and tried again. The same thing happened. To me it seemed that the Imagine couldn't work out where to cut the image.

I removed the mat and relocated the tape so that it wasn't covering any of the four registration marks on the mat. This time when I sent the file off to the Imagine it cut without a hitch!

So, if you're using tape to hold your cardstock to your Imagine mat make sure the tape doesn't cover any of the four registration marks.

Here's where you shouldn't place the tape (the same applies to the bottom of the mat):

And here's where you can place it (you can probably also place it anywhere on the border, just not on the registration marks):

Hope that helps!

Separating Imagine image layers

Today at the Cricut Craft Room forum ReenyBug was attempting to separate the layers on an Imagine image so she could cut each part separately. After she had separated the layers some weren't cutting and some of the images were printed with a shadow when there shouldn't have been one.

I recreated what she was doing and had the same thing happen to me. Here's what it looked like on the CCR screen:

Here's what it looked like after it cut. Only the piece at the top cut. You can see where I've removed that piece and moved it to the bottom of the mat. You can also see the black shadow.

With some help from another board member CricutCMV (Char) we managed to work it out. Chalk another one up to team work!

Here it is again. This time all the layers were cut and everything printed correctly.

Here's how you do it:

• Select an image from the Imagine cart of your choice and place it on the mat. Resize it if necessary.
  
• Click the Edit Group button in the bottom left corner of the image.

• Click the Separate button (top right of mat screen)

• Click the Exit button (top left of screen). All the layers will now be separated:

• Select all of the layers by dragging a selection box around them

• Click the Ungroup button from the toolbar

The Edit Group button will disappear.

• Now you can select each different layer and move it around on the mat if you need to

And now you're ready to print and cut!

Keyboard Shortcuts

Here's a list of the keyboard shortcuts you can use in CCR.

Function	Windows	Mac
Select All	Ctrl A	CMD A
Group	Ctrl G	CMD G
Ungroup	Ctrl U	CMD U
Copy to clipboard	Ctrl C	CMD C
Paste from clipboard	Ctrl V	CMD V
Cut to clipboard	Ctrl X	CMD X
Print/Cut/Go		CMD P
Quit/Exit CCR	Ctrl E	CMD Q
Open & Close Menus and keypad drawer	Tab	Tab
Undo	Ctrl Z	CMD Z
Redo	Ctrl + Shift Z	CMD +Shift Z or CMD Y
New project	Ctrl N	CMD N
Open project	Ctrl O	CMD O
Save	Ctrl S	CMD S
Save As	Ctrl + Shift S
Quick Type/Add Text Box	Ctrl T	CMD T
Send Front		open [
Send Back		close ]
Send Forward	] or Ctrl up arrow	CMD Up arrow
Send Backward	[ or Ctrl down arrow	CMD Down arrow
Exit Hide Contours and Edit Group modes	Esc	Esc
Nudge objects	Right/Left/Up/Down arrows	Right/Left/Up/Down arrows
Big Nudge objects	Shift Right/Left/Up/Down arrows	SHFT Right/Left/Up/Down arrows
Delete selected objects	Del	Del
Zoom in	Z + click on mat	Z + click on mat
Zoom out	Z + Alt + click on mat	Z + Alt + click on mat
Scale non proportionally by height or width	Alt + Click on height or width handle	CMD mouse down
Pan screen (mouse cursor changes to a hand)	Space bar and drag screen up or down	Space bar and drag screen up or down

CCR info from PC

In case you missed this on the Cricut messageboard or Facebook page this is a message from Cara at PC:

We know that some of you are wondering why you get the following message when trying to access the Cricut Craft Room: “It looks like you’ve not been granted access to the beta. Check back periodically for a public beta”. What does this mean?


We want you to have the best possible experience when using Cricut Craft Room. To help us identify bugs or problems with the application, a beta version of Cricut Craft Room is available to a limited number of users called beta testers. These beta testers are providing us feedback so that we can resolve problems before Cricut Craft Room is launched publically. This beta testing process has taken more time than initially projected. Please be patient with us. We want to make certain that Cricut Craft Room runs as flawlessly as possible before opening it up to the full Cricut community.

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