How To Load Vinyl Into Silhouette Cameo Without Mat

Your machine will roll your mat into the cutting area.

How to load vinyl into silhouette cameo without mat.

Place the vinyl on the correct size of mat you have selected in the silhouette software. If you are using a sheet of vinyl most often you will cut using a mat. How to load vinyl without a 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.

Now see how the rollers are firmly gripping the edges of the vinyl. Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine. 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 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.

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. If you have a cameo 1 or 2 select load media from the panel. Use the blue line on the left hand side of your machine as a guide to align your mat. If it doesn t go in straight it won t be long before it goes awry.

Select load cut mat from the display. Send it to cut. Use your silhouette without a mat when you are working on vinyl projects. When loading a cutting mat into your silhouette align the mat with the white rollers.

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 you have a cameo 3 click load on the panel to load the vinyl into the machine. Overview of the s. Now select load on your cameo 3.