Provo Craft cannot force a firmware update on the Cricut Personal Cutter, Create, Expression, Cake or Cake Mini systems. SCAL will continue to improve like other major software programs have over the years. Indeed, I am tremendously excited about the work that is being done to extend SCAL to other personal cutting systems. SCAL supports other cutting systems including the Silhouette, Wish Blade and E-Craft and work continues to progress to support even more systems. Also, if similar, SCAL would discontinue future support for Cricut systems. In the event that SCAL and Provo Craft decide to settle their dispute, the worst case could be similar to MTC’s settlement which means that SCAL owners would continue using SCAL with their Cricut systems just as MTC users will be doing. As I mentioned, the Provo Craft / MTC dispute continued for about a year. The dispute between Provo Craft and SCAL could continue for awhile. Unlike MTC, there is no feature in SCAL that lets users back-up Cricut cartridges and the SCAL development team has been very careful to avoid any such capability.Ĭraft Edge (the company that makes SCAL) disagrees that they have violated Provo Craft’s intellectual property rights and has retained capable legal representation. SCAL was only recently challenged by Provo Craft. SCAL is the original, leading third-party software designed to let Cricut owners use creative content from their computers and has been on the market for more than three years. SCAL is not a party to the Provo Craft / MTC dispute and no part of the Provo Craft / MTC settlement applies to SCAL. If you visit the Make The Cut website, you will see they are still very much in business but no longer offer their product for the Cricut. People who currently use MTC with their Cricuts will continue doing so. The patch only disables the cartridge back-up feature. In the settlement, MTC agreed to drop future support for Cricut systems and also agreed to force a patch on a small group of MTC software users whose version has the cartridge back-up capability because it essentially lets users copy cartridge content. Actually, Provo Craft’s actions may cost them significant customer loyalty. In other words, Provo Craft did not “win†a lawsuit against MTC. Provo Craft and MTC reached a mutually beneficial settlement to their dispute. Provo Craft moved quickly to save its cartridge content from being distributed on the Internet. In addition, MTC was alleged to have Cricut cartridge content in the MTC user gallery. This was largely because MTC had created a way to let users “back-up†Cricut cartridge content. Make The Cut (MTC) was only on the market for about six months when it was sued by Provo Craft, one year ago. Feel free to share this with your friends. Please let me explain by making a comment about MTC and then SCAL. I have received several other emails about this so I decided to provide information to clarify. I’m happy to answer your questions about this. She sent me an email I found interesting and said I could share it with my friends I wrote Michelle at where I purchased my SCAL software and have had excellent customer service. I was concerned about my Expression upgrading and not being able to use my SCAL software. So long as Scal continues to work even if it can no longer be sold, and so long as they can't FORCE me to update the firmwear that will make scal not work anymore, it's worth it. K I found this on another blog, which makes me think it's worth it to get Scal, still. I love being able to have so many seems like right after I got my Cricut I used it a lot for the fonts but I"m tired of the same old 8 or 10 fonts.SCAL gives me a lot more options. I have found a few that just don't cut well because they are way to skinny. I have found THOUSANDS of free svg files online, have made several of my own, and have bought a few.they are generally a lot more affordable than a cartridge and I know what I buy I will use.Īnd yes, you can use any true type font you have in microsoft and download thousands more. I still use my SCAL almost daily.if they have to settle with PC also then I will not be able update my Gypsy but that doesn't bother me a bit because as soon as I can get the money saved up I'm going to buy an ecraft anyway.I will have an Expression, Gypsy and cartridges for sale. You can no longer buy Make the Cut and use it on a Cricut.they had to take whatever it is in the program that allows the Cricut to understand the cut out. The only way ProvoCraft will know you use SCAL is if you tell them. The learning scale for SCAL is not huge.one night of youtube tutorials and I had it down. If it is detailed, you may have to do some layering. You can google any jpeg picture and use the trace function in SCAL2 to make a cut file.
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