How To Use Silhouette Cutting Mat

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How to use silhouette cutting mat.

Lint rollers if you find your mat has lots of fuzzy lint on it use a lint roller across your mat. Using the silhouette pull down menu in the header and choosing cut settings cut style for selected shape when you open the cut settings window anything that will be cutting should now have a thicker red line outlining it. You will need an area around the outside that is not sticky. To load a cutting mat into the silhouette cameo remove the protective covering sheet from the mat.

Open the cut settings window by either using. You should be able to see all the nasties coming off your mat. Under cutting mat change the cutting mat to cameo 12 x 24 in f. 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.

Shop silhouette cutting mats. Make sure the show cut border box g is checked and that your design stays within the red borders. Next butt the mat up to the rollers on your machine. Grab your sponge and start a scrubbin.

Before applying any of these to your mat make sure you put tape around your edges. Next apply your material to the mat. This will prevent the vinyl backing from sticking to the cutting mat and tearing when it s removed after cutting. Use the grid lines on the mat to line the material up with the edges of the sticky portion of your mat.

If you are using any previous silhouette cutting models cameo 3 portrait 2 etc you must use a cutting mat to cut out cardstock or other paper materials. You can also put tape on your fingers and dab your mat like you are using a lint roller. In silhouette studio v4. Open the bottle of goo gone and dribble a little around the mat.

Now go make something awesome. This will make it less likely for problems to occur when placing your mat in your silhouette cameo. See how to load your cutting mat into your silhouette cutting machine. If it doesn t the most common reason is that you have not selected the cut setting in this menu.

Under page size change the height to 24 000 e. Adding re stick back to your mat. 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. Take the dirty silhouette cutting mat and lay it on a flat surface such as a counter or table.

Cleaning a dirty silhouette cutting mat 1.