Review on Brother ScanNCut DX, SDX125, 5” LCD Touch Screen, Wireless Connectivity, High-Resolution 🖨️ 600 DPI Scanner, 682 Built-in Designs Home Electronic Cutting Machine, Grey/Aqua (Previous Model) by Carla Anderson

Now I have all three machines, they all work great but each one is better for its job so there is no clear winner for all. the best, easiest to use and most powerful software, although you might want to pay extra for extra features and for it to be able to read and export SVG design files (which the other two machines can also cut), so you'll want to create your own complex designs, but Corel Draw or Adobe are too complicated/expensive, you can buy the silhouette. It cuts paper and vinyl well, but not so well for fabric (you can cut fabric with an iron on the pad to stabilize it) and cannot cut felt and wood. The Silhouette also has a very extensive design library that can be purchased at a very reasonable price. It has an automatic blade that you configure according to your needs via software. There are two cutting heads for two different tools. He can't really emboss cardboard. With the Business Edition software, you can have multiple machines working at the same time. Cricut Maker has insanely useless software and expensive limited designs (how many of their designs can't be modified. Why?!), but it has a rotating blade to cut almost any type of fabric (up to 3/32 inch thick), and it has a woodcutting knife blade that is also up to 3/32 inch thick. The rotating blade works like a normal quilting knife and can also work with tissue paper etc as it does not damage the material like normal blades. The blade of the knife looks like the blade of an existential knife and works by traversing the same lines many times to cut deeper each time. Doll clothes and doll furniture, here I am! To do this, I had to scan and trace my own patterns or create patterns in Silhouette software. Cricut can also cut vinyl, cardboard, and all kinds of common materials that other machines can, and do it well too. There is no embossing function yet. You can upload SVG files created elsewhere, but you'll need to resize them. I always add a square inch to the design and then enlarge the whole thing to make it back to an inch. Now comes the new brother. Unlike the other two machines, it has a scanner that allows you to scan fabric or paper and then adjust the design on screen to cut it out of any part. You can use this particular piece to cut out a face from a photo or your patchwork design, or it will help you save on materials as you can place multiple snippets on the same mat and be sure to cut your designs from any piece you want. A silhouette can do this, but you have to photograph the footage on a mat and then upload the image, which takes a lot of steps and doesn't always work because that's how your photo needs to be taken. I don't know how to do this with Cricut. The new Brother can connect to a computer with a USB cable or wirelessly (now you don't have to pay extra for that), but you can also use it without a computer at all. Many themes come preloaded on the machine, and you can copy your themes to a USB stick and read them from there. The software is pretty weak, but you can upload SVG files purchased or created elsewhere, and you can upload your own images and track them for cutting. Several hundred shapes are included but note that the drawings come with a license agreement prohibiting you from selling anything created using Brother drawings. So theoretically you cut and sell a square from the library and get in legal trouble. . (Silhouette lets you buy the commercial rights to most of the designs, and you're free to use the shapes and your own designs however you want. I don't know how it works with Cricut.) The screen is full color, and touch works with one finger or one Pen. New car must use new mats, old mats will not fit. The new blade is great because it's fully automatic, meaning the machine will scan your material for thickness and adjust the blade accordingly. You still need to make a test cut and can adjust the blade settings to make the cut deeper or harder or less crushing. So far it looks like it cuts too deep on my machine and I had to adjust it. It can also do a half cut so you can cut vinyl while the backing remains intact. To cut the fabric, you need to stick a special adhesive film on a regular carpet and cut or iron it in this way. Without it, the blade will pull at the fabric and ruin everything. I don't know why they don't just make mats out of fabric (like Cricut does), it's so messy to put a sticky sheet on top of a regular mat and you won't be reusing them anyway. I tried to cut a piece of very thin balsa wood but nothing worked - the cutter head scratches the soft wood and cannot cut through it. Whether you want to carve fabric or wood, Cricut Maker is the way to go. You can also edit your designs on your computer, either online or in a standalone app (you'll need the latter to transfer designs directly from your computer). to the machine. The new machine is definitely quieter than the other two, meaning it's pretty quiet most of the time, but makes pretty loud noises from time to time when the carriage is moving diagonally over a long distance. Both the Cricut and Silhouette are much louder, you can't watch TV while they're cutting. New mats or blades are not yet available here on Amazon, but should be 12x12, 12x24 regular and light potholders, two types of blades (with blade holders) - standard and thin blade for cloth, and there is one type foil application kit which they will also be selling soon. And the embossing kit should work too, at least that's what Brother customer service told me. Before purchasing, please visit the Brother customer support website and download the PDF manual with all the designs included so you know what you got. You can also join their Canvas online workspace for free and see what free projects they have - there are some great projects you can do right now with instructions and videos. All in all, the new Brother device is excellent for starting projects without any problems. if you don't have to do much editing or designing. Load your rug with your material, choose a pattern and click start. They have made. It is excellent for paper and vinyl products (including heat transfer).