How To Load Vinyl Into Silhouette Cameo Without Mat

Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine.

How to load vinyl into silhouette cameo without mat.

Send it to cut. When loading a cutting mat into your silhouette align the mat with the white rollers. If you have a cameo 3 click load on the panel to load the vinyl into the machine. Use your silhouette without a mat when you are working on vinyl projects.

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. Overview of the s. This introductory video shows users how to load material with and without a cutting mat into the silhouette cameo. Make sure the arrow on the top of the mat is pointing into the machine.

How to load vinyl without a mat. If it doesn t go in straight it won t be long before it goes awry. 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. If you are using a sheet of vinyl most often you will cut using a mat.

If the vinyl doesn t load straight unload and reload until it does. If you have a cameo 1 or 2 select load media from the panel. 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. Now see how the rollers are firmly gripping the edges of the vinyl.

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. Place the vinyl on the correct size of mat you have selected in the silhouette software. Now select load on your cameo 3. 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.