How To Load Cutting Mat Silhouette Cameo

Yes all of the silhouette cameo machines portrait machines can cut without a mat.

How to load cutting mat silhouette cameo.

Cut a piece of vinyl the length of your design plus a few inches. Cutting with a cutting mat. You may have to work on moving the rollers on a cameo 1. However the rollers are a bit different.

In order to prevent damage to your cutting strip a mat should always be used when cutting materials without a backing i would rather take the time to load my mat than have to replace the cutting strip on my machine. Start by gently positioning the top edge of the silhouette cutting mat along the white rollers. When you are preparing to cut material with your cameo or portrait machines it is necessary to load the material onto a cutting mat and then you load the cutting mat into your machine. Is your mat a little full of leftover vinyl fibers or full of glitter.

Next butt the mat up to the rollers on your machine. Silhouette cutting mats are available in several sizes. Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine. Next apply your material to the mat.

Place the vinyl on the correct size of mat you have selected in the silhouette software. Load options for the original cameo cameo 2 and portrait are selected using the buttons on the machine itself. Use the grid lines on the mat to line the material up with the edges of the sticky portion of your mat. Mine was and i found myself super frustrated because none of my vinyl was sticking to my mat.

The left edge of the mat should be aligned with the line and two arrows. To load a cutting mat into the silhouette cameo remove the protective covering sheet from the mat. 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. Quick video showing proper alignment of the cutting mat on both the silhouette cameo 3 and cameo 4 machines.

To load the cutting mat into the silhouette machine. How to clean your silhouette cameo cutting mat. They can be a bit tricky. I decided to research how to clean my mat.

Press load from the control panel on the front of the machine. How to load vinyl without a mat. Now select load on your cameo 3. Follow the steps below to see what you need to do to load the cutting mat.