How To Load Cutting Mat Silhouette Cameo

Press load from the control panel on the front of the machine.

How to load cutting mat silhouette cameo. When you are preparing to cut material with your cameo or portrait machines it is necessary to load the material onto a cutting mat and then you load the cutting mat into your machine. Load options for the original cameo cameo 2 and portrait are selected using the buttons on the machine itself. To load the cutting mat into the silhouette machine. How to load vinyl without a mat.

In order to prevent damage to your cutting strip a mat should always be used when cutting materials without a backing i would rather take the time to load my mat than have to replace the cutting strip on my machine. Quick video showing proper alignment of the cutting mat on both the silhouette cameo 3 and cameo 4 machines. I have a cameo 1 as well but use my cameo 3 without the mat as the rollers are easier to move. However the rollers are a bit different.

Cutting with a cutting mat. Yes all of the silhouette cameo machines portrait machines can cut without a mat. Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine. I wanted to cut some heat transfer vinyl for a shirt i was making but my vinyl kept slipping.

Follow the steps below to see what you need to do to load the cutting mat. To load a cutting mat into the silhouette cameo remove the protective covering sheet from the mat. 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. Now select load on your cameo 3.

Mine was and i found myself super frustrated because none of my vinyl was sticking to my mat. I decided to research how to clean my mat. Place the vinyl on the correct size of mat you have selected in the silhouette software. They can be a bit tricky.

Start by gently positioning the top edge of the silhouette cutting mat along the white rollers. Although the maximum cutting width for the cameo is 12 you can load widths up to 15 so if you can cut your vinyl wider than 12 and load it into the machine centered with the rollers. Use the grid lines on the mat to line the material up with the edges of the sticky portion of your mat. Next apply your material to the mat.

You may have to work on moving the rollers on a cameo 1. How to clean your silhouette cameo cutting mat. Next butt the mat up to the rollers on your machine. Is your mat a little full of leftover vinyl fibers or full of glitter.