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.
How to load cutting mat silhouette cameo.
How to clean your silhouette cameo cutting mat.
They can be a bit tricky.
Press load from the control panel on the front of the machine.
However the rollers are a bit different.
Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine.
Quick video showing proper alignment of the cutting mat on both the silhouette cameo 3 and cameo 4 machines.
Follow the steps below to see what you need to do to load the cutting mat.
Is your mat a little full of leftover vinyl fibers or full of glitter.
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.
To load a cutting mat into the silhouette cameo remove the protective covering sheet from the mat.
Mine was and i found myself super frustrated because none of my vinyl was sticking to my mat.
Use the grid lines on the mat to line the material up with the edges of the sticky portion of your mat.
Now select load on your cameo 3.
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.
The left edge of the mat should be aligned with the line and two arrows.
How to load vinyl without a mat.
Next butt the mat up to the rollers on your machine.
To load the cutting mat into the silhouette machine.
I have a cameo 1 as well but use my cameo 3 without the mat as the rollers are easier to move.
Yes all of the silhouette cameo machines portrait machines can cut without a mat.
I decided to research how to clean my mat.
You may have to work on moving the rollers on a cameo 1.
Next apply your material to the mat.
Start by gently positioning the top edge of the silhouette cutting mat along the white rollers.
Although the maximum cutting width for the cameo is 12 you can load widths up to 15 so if you can cut your vinyl wider than 12 and load it into the machine centered with the rollers.
Silhouette cutting mats are available in several sizes.
I wanted to cut some heat transfer vinyl for a shirt i was making but my vinyl kept slipping.
Load options for the original cameo cameo 2 and portrait are selected using the buttons on the machine itself.
