How To Load Mat Into Silhouette Portrait

This is a very basic video.

How to load mat into silhouette portrait.

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. Load options for the original cameo cameo 2 and portrait are selected using the buttons on the machine itself. 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. 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.

Now select load on your cameo 3. I was having trouble with my silhouette not recognizing the registration marks as well as not aligning properly. Silhouette cutting mats are available in several sizes. Follow the steps below to see what you need to do to load the cutting mat.

Place the vinyl on the correct size of mat you have selected in the silhouette software.