Are you also using the Cricut, the material cutting machine, which can cut many materials such as paper, vinyl, cardstock, thin wood, etc? If yes, then you may have encountered the Cricut Make It Button Not Working or Greyed Out issue on your Cricut Design Space.
Many users are unable to complete their projects as the Cricut Design Space is not responding, freezing, crashing, and can’t click the Make it or Continue button. When any user clicks the Make it or Continue button, the screen gets stuck and it wouldn’t cut the item.
However, there are various reasons for Cricut Make It Button Not Working or Greyed Out issue. In this article, I will help you to fix the Cricut design space make it button greyed out the issue and other errors such as Cricut Design Space isn’t cutting, crashing. freezing, etc.
How to Fix Cricut Make It Button Not Working or Greyed Out?
Before moving to the solutions, make sure that your PC is well connected to the Cricut cutting machine. You can easily connect the Cricut machine to your PC wirelessly via Bluetooth.
1. Restart your PC and Cricut Machine.
If you ever find yourself in such type of situation in which you are unable to craft items on your Cricut cutting machine, then you should first restart all the devices.
First of all, Save your current project in the Cricut Design Space so your hard work wouldn’t be lost. Now close the browser and Restart your PC. Unplug the power cable of the Cricut machine, wait for a few seconds, and plug it in again.
Once you restart the Cricut and your PC, try to craft the items. If the Make it button is still greyed out or not clickable, then follow the below methods.
2. Use Another Browser.
There are many browsers available to serf content online and when it comes to designing online, you should go for a powerful browser. Maybe your current browser is taking too much time to send commands to the Cricut machine and as the result Make it button is not working.
Some browsers take too much time to load projects in Cricut Desing Space and sometimes the screen starts freezing and not responding.
It is recommended that you should opt for a different browser, i.e. if you are using Chrome, then try Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Edge.
Moreover, you can also use the Incognito tab, as it doesn’t load any cached pages so you can easily edit and print your items on the Cricut cutting machine.
3. Delete Browser Cache and Cookies.
If the Cricut Desing Space is still not working properly, then you should try to delete the browser cache and cookies for their website. Outdated cache and cookies encounter such types of errors and you should fix them as soon as possible.
To delete your browsing data, cache, and cookies:
- Go to your Browser’s Settings.
- Click on Security and Privacy.
- Clear browsing data, cache, and cookies from there for the Cricut Desing Space website.
4. Check your Internet connection.
Make sure that your Internet connection is working fine in order to click the Make it button. If your Internet connection is too slow then it will not be easy to click the Make it button as the design tool will preview the image before printing it.
Try to use any other Network or you can simply perform a power cycle on your WiFi router. First, turn off your router and unplug the power cable. Wait for approx 60 seconds, then plug back the cable and turn the power button of the router.
5. Upload JPEG Image.
This method is working for many users and you can also try it without any hard work. All you have to do is just take the screenshot of your current project, save it to a JPEG file, and upload it on the Cricut Desing Space tool.
Follow the below steps to completely understand the process.
- First of all, Load the image in the Cricut Desing Space that you want to print.
- Now click the three-horizontal menu on the top-left side of your screen.
- Select “Settings.“
- Then choose the No Grid option in the Canvas Grid.
- It will remove the lines from the background of your image. Now you have to take a screenshot of the image that you want to print and save it to your computer as a JPEG file.
- Click the New project button and then tap the Upload button from the top-left side menu.
- Hit the Upload Image option and select the screenshot image that you want to print.
- Once your images are uploaded, choose the Complex option and click the Continue button.
- Now select and erase the white background of your image and turn it into an SVG file.
- Finally, click the Continue button and the image will load on your screen.
- Select the Make it button and then click the Continue button and your image will start crafting on your material.
So this is all we know about how to fix the Cricut Design Space isn’t cutting, the Make It button not working, or greyed out. I hope you can easily print your items on the Cricut machine without any further errors.
Moreover, if you are still getting any errors then you can contact Member Care via chat or call. They will definitely help you or fix your device as soon as possible.
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