How To Load Mat Into Silhouette Portrait

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.

How to load mat into silhouette portrait. Place the vinyl on the correct size of mat you have selected in the silhouette software. Silhouette portrait help this is a need to know video but even if you do this right you can run into troubles with the cutting thanks for watching. I was having trouble with my silhouette not recognizing the registration marks as well as not aligning properly. How to load vinyl without a mat.

Silhouette cutting mats are available in several sizes. 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. Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine. This is a very basic video.

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.