How To Use The Silhouette Cutting Mat

Position the design on the mat the rollers may leave an indentation along the edge of the vinyl like this.

How to use the silhouette cutting mat.

Grab your sponge and start a scrubbin. Next the pop out cut feature can be used only with the cameo 4 machine line. This worth saving that you can protect your mat later. There is a surprising amount to know about the cutting mat.

The silhouette cameo mat comes in several sizes. Shop silhouette cutting mats. 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 you haven t removed the protective liner from the cutting mat remember to do that now.

To do that in silhouette studio v3. Mine was and i found myself super frustrated because none of my vinyl was sticking to my mat. 2 after adjusting the page size to longer than the mat mat s still underneath. The cutting mat is an essential part of your die cutting machine.

Take the dirty silhouette cutting mat and lay it on a flat surface such as a counter or table. Place your material in the top upper left corner of the mat as shown in silhouette studio. The 12 12 inch cameo mat standard grip. 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.

Click on the open the design settings window icon a. How to clean your silhouette cameo cutting mat. In this example we ll. I wanted to cut some heat transfer vinyl for a shirt i was making but my vinyl kept slipping.

1 regular settings for using a 12 x 12 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. 3 after setting the cutting mat to none the screen mat has disappeared. Additionally pop out cut mode is not intended for thin or flexible materials like copy paper or fabric.

Is your mat a little full of leftover vinyl fibers or full of glitter. You should be able to see all the nasties coming off your mat. Whether you are new to the silhouette cameo or a long time user you just might learn something new. Open the bottle of goo gone and dribble a little around the mat.

See how to load your cutting mat into your silhouette cutting machine. I decided to research how to clean my mat. Cleaning a dirty silhouette cutting mat 1. When working with the longer mat you need to tell the software that that s what you re doing.