How To Place Vinyl On Silhouette Cutting Mat

You can get silhouette cameo cutting mats in 12 x 12 and 12 x 24.

How to place vinyl on silhouette cutting mat.

This is especially important if your blade is not new. Load the vinyl into your silhouette. Then i selected and grouped each half of the design separately moving one half off of the mat to cut later. Another great thing is you can place multiple pieces of vinyl on one mat when.

Tip 4 shiny side down. This introductory video shows users how to load material with and without a cutting mat into the silhouette cameo. 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. This is a silhouette studio v4 tutorial for htv.

Select your type of vinyl from the material drop down list in the send panel. It cut in the right place one time and then reverted back to cutting in the wrong place. There s less chance that the vinyl will move on you. Overview of the s.

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. I heard of some crafters that have place a note on the inside of the lid of their machine as a reminder. It is possible to cut vinyl directly from the roll without a mat using your silhouette and i will add a post all about how to do that soon but for now let s just focus on how to cut with a cutting mat. How to set up for htv in silhouette studio.

Place vinyl on cutting mat. It allows you to cut 12 12 if using a standard mat or 12 24 if using a larger mat. Easier to load less chance of slipping of vinyl and smaller cut borders. Place the top edge of the cutting mat gently against the rollers and then left edge lined up with the line and arrows on the left side of the machine.

Hold it in place with one hand while clicking. Tip 5 test cut. Make sure to place the vinyl on the cutting mat with the shiny side down. My silhouette 3 is still cutting in the wrong place up on the mat at the top left even though it is set for the 12 12 cutting mat in the silhouette studio.

Open design in silhouette studio and resize as desired. To cut this design i started on the vinyl matte setting but after doing a test cut realized that the blade setting needed to be adjusted slightly due to my blade being a little dull. The benefits of using a mat are. Heat transfer vinyl designs.

A cutting mat is not necessary.