Feeding Vinyl On Cutting Mat

I was cutting a 4 small leaf patterns at the top of the mat.

Feeding vinyl on cutting mat.

First it didn t finish the cut but gave me a cut completed message. This will bring up a red cut border and will show you the maximum cut able area of your vinyl. Repeat until all mats have been cut. Then it cut half of the leaf at the top and half into the top of my mat.

Then it spit out the mat and tried to cut itself. Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine. Check the box to show cut border. Large projects that extend over the cutting mat can cause cutting issues in a cameo but lisa shows an easy fix so your extra long projects are done seamless.

Cutting vinyl without a mat on your silhouette cameo duration. Next something to keep in mind when cutting without a mat you lose 1 4 of cut able space on your material on the left right side and 1 of cut able space on the backside. Are you using the correct mat for the material you are cutting. The same thing happened to me last night.

Load the cutting mat into the machine by pressing the load unload button then press the go button when it starts flashing. Now select load on your cameo 3. First set your cutting mat to none in the page setup panel. I like to cut most of my vinyl without a mat because the majority of the time i am using rolls of vinyl instead of sheets.

Mat no mat setting for cutting in addition to how you choose to load your media as we discussed above you will need to tell the software if you are going to be using a mat or not when you cut you will find this option on the design page settings window in the cutting mat section. Expressions vinyl 95 872 views. If you have a second or third color to cut gently peel the vinyl off the cutting mat then place the next color of vinyl onto the mat. Now if you have checked the list above and your machine still is not acting right or cutting correctly you may need to change your setting.

Glitter tumbler tutorial epoxy loctite method full process start to finish. Below are some cutting tricks i have learned on the way. I unplugged it tried again and it worked. Place the vinyl onto the silhouette cutting mat with the backing paper side down onto the mat making sure the vinyl is covering the same area where the design is placed on the virtual mat in silhouette studio.

You can choose cameo portrait or none according to how you will be cutting. If you are using a sheet of vinyl most often you will cut using a mat. Make sure to set things up in silhouette studio so that your cut will feed through the cameo properly. How to load vinyl without a mat.

You can feed your design cut on your rolled material through the back and use the crosscutter to make a clean straight cut to separate the design from the rolled material.