Next apply your material to the mat.
How to load cutting mat silhouette cameo 2.
To load a cutting mat into the silhouette cameo remove the protective covering sheet from the mat.
Use the blue line on the left hand side of your machine as a guide to align your mat.
If you have a cameo 3 click load on the panel to load the vinyl into the machine.
Start by gently positioning the top edge of the silhouette cutting mat along the white rollers.
If you have a cameo 1 or 2 select load media from the panel.
Your machine will roll your mat into the cutting area.
Place your material on your mat to correspond with the display in silhouette studio before cutting.
Send it to cut.
Cutting with a cutting mat.
The mat was feeding initially but then would start slanting and feeding totally wrong and end up at.
Within the send panel select your material type.
So something i learned rather quickly after ruining 2 pieces of cardstock on my new silhouette cameo.
To load the cutting mat into the silhouette machine.
Use the grid lines on the mat to line the material up with the edges of the sticky portion of your mat.
The software knows whether to automatically choose cut or pop out cut for the action based on your cutting mat selection.
Paper and similar stiff materials that usually need a mat to cut completely through should use pop out cut when you have no mat selected in the page setup panel.
When loading a cutting mat into your silhouette align the mat with the white rollers.
How to load vinyl without a mat.
Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine.
Press load from the control panel on the front of the machine.
Now select load on your cameo 3.
I just got off the phone with silhouette and had to edit this post after getting some great help.
Place the vinyl on the correct size of mat you have selected in the silhouette software.
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.
Next butt the mat up to the rollers on your machine.
The left edge of the mat should be aligned with the line and two arrows.
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Select load cut mat from the display.
If it doesn t go in straight it won t be long before it goes awry.
If the vinyl doesn t load straight unload and reload until it does.
