How To Load Vinyl Into Silhouette Cameo Without Mat

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How to load vinyl into silhouette cameo without mat.

Your machine will roll your mat into the cutting area. 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. Use the blue line on the left hand side of your machine as a guide to align your mat. Now see how the rollers are firmly gripping the edges of the vinyl.

Use your silhouette without a mat when you are working on vinyl projects. Make sure the arrow on the top of the mat is pointing into the machine. If you have a cameo 1 or 2 select load media from the panel. This introductory video shows users how to load material with and without a cutting mat into the silhouette cameo.

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 it doesn t go in straight it won t be long before it goes awry. When loading a cutting mat into your silhouette align the mat with the white rollers. 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.

Select load cut mat from the display. Place the vinyl on the correct size of mat you have selected in the silhouette software. Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine. Send it to cut.

If you have a cameo 3 click load on the panel to load the vinyl into the machine. If you are using a sheet of vinyl most often you will cut using a mat. How to load vinyl without a mat. Now select load on your cameo 3.