How To Set Vinyl On Cutting Mat For Cricut

The maximum cutting area on a 12 x 12 30 5 cm x 30 5 cm mat is 11 5 x 11 5 29 cm x 29 cm.

How to set vinyl on cutting mat for cricut.

How to lock the position on the mat. Click continue in the lower right corner green button smooth your vinyl paper backing side down onto your cutting mat making sure to cover the entire area on the mat where the design is dictated on the cricut design space screen. Cutting vinyl with a cricut machine. Wherever you drag the design on the mat the position will be locked in and your cricut will cut it out in that exact position on your mat.

Refer to kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings. Keep this cover and replace it after each use to keep the mat cleaner and stickier for longer. To change the position of your design on the cutting mat all you need to do is select your design and manually drag it to change its position. Test cut on new projects.

Preparation with cricut transfer tape. Cricut cutting mats come with a plastic protective cover over them. Remove the negative pieces from each of the images leaving the clear. Select images and size and load the mat into the machine.

Stick a piece of vinyl to your cutting mat making sure the paper backing side is down. Press flashing go button. Cricut lightgrip cutting mat cricut standardgrip cutting mat and the cricut stronggrip cutting mat. The smart set dial eliminates the need to make manual pressure depth and speed adjustments.

If the blade is set too low it will chomp up your cutting mat. I set my material to iron on in design space and now i m ready to cut all my colors at once and it looks like i need to clean my mat. If set too high it may only cut slightly through your. Each of these mats is used to cut many different types of materials from lightweight materials like printer paper and washi tape sheets to heavyweight materials like.

Everything is cut out and that saved a lot of time reloading and cutting each different layer on a new mat. Set the smart dial on your machine to vinyl or if you have an older machine without a smart dial check out cricut s cut settings guide for vinyl. If either the height or width of an image is greater than 11 5 29 cm when you select make it you will receive an alert that one of your images is too large for a 12 x 12 30 5 cm x 30 5 cm mat. Cricut makes 3 different mats to use with their explore air machines.

Cricut explore s smart set dial is a material selection dial that offers pre defined settings to get the best results on paper vinyl iron on cardstock fabric poster board and more. Keep the mat covers.