How To Load Vinyl Into Silhouette Cameo Without Mat

Make sure the arrow on the top of the mat is pointing into the machine.

How to load vinyl into silhouette cameo without mat. When loading a cutting mat into your silhouette align the mat with the white rollers. Use the blue line on the left hand side of your machine as a guide to align your mat. This introductory video shows users how to load material with and without a cutting mat into the silhouette cameo. Don t push it in just hold it up to the rollers so when you push the load button it will pull the vinyl into the machine.

Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine. 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. If it doesn t go in straight it won t be long before it goes awry. Now select load on your cameo 3.

Your machine will roll your mat into the cutting area. Place your vinyl next to the blue line on the left side just like you would load the mat and the top edge of the vinyl up against the rollers. If you have a cameo 3 click load on the panel to load the vinyl into the machine. 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.

If you have a cameo 1 or 2 select load media from the panel. Now see how the rollers are firmly gripping the edges of the vinyl. Send it to cut. How to load vinyl without a mat.

If your silhouette cutting mat is brand new you may want to de stick the cutting mat somewhat by blotting it with a clean t shirt. If the vinyl doesn t load straight unload and reload until it does. Overview of the s. Select load cut mat from the display.