Silhouette cutting mats are available in several sizes.
How to load cutting mat silhouette cameo.
Is your mat a little full of leftover vinyl fibers or full of glitter.
Use the grid lines on the mat to line the material up with the edges of the sticky portion of your mat.
To load the cutting mat into the silhouette machine.
However the rollers are a bit different.
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.
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.
I have a cameo 1 as well but use my cameo 3 without the mat as the rollers are easier to move.
Start by gently positioning the top edge of the silhouette cutting mat along the white rollers.
You may have to work on moving the rollers on a cameo 1.
Cut a piece of vinyl the length of your design plus a few inches.
How to load vinyl without a mat.
Load options for the original cameo cameo 2 and portrait are selected using the buttons on the machine itself.
Next butt the mat up to the rollers on your machine.
They can be a bit tricky.
Now select load on your cameo 3.
To load a cutting mat into the silhouette cameo remove the protective covering sheet from the mat.
I decided to research how to clean my mat.
Cutting with a cutting mat.
Quick video showing proper alignment of the cutting mat on both the silhouette cameo 3 and cameo 4 machines.
How to clean your silhouette cameo cutting mat.
Yes all of the silhouette cameo machines portrait machines can cut without a mat.
The left edge of the mat should be aligned with the line and two arrows.
Follow the steps below to see what you need to do to load the cutting mat.
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.
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.
Mine was and i found myself super frustrated because none of my vinyl was sticking to my mat.
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.
