Don t worry be crafty.
Silhouette blade settings for cutting vinyl without a cutting mat.
You can access the cut settings by clicking on the send tab in silhouette studio.
Looking for heat transfer vinyl for shirts or adhesive vinyl for mugs windows and more that can be cut in your silhouette cameo circuit explore or brother scan n cut.
Next something to keep in mind when cutting without a mat you lose 1 4 of cut able space on your material on the left right side and 1 of cut able space on the backside.
To cut scroll down.
The tricky news is that each piece of vinyl blade and machine can cut a little differently.
Cut settings can be easiest and trickiest of getting great cut.
Clicking on vinyl in material settings tells us that we need to use all the platforms 2 2 1 mat.
Lastly ensure you ve selected the correct cut settings before cutting out your design by performing a test.
It s permanent and cuts and weeds beautifully.
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Save those mats for cardstock.
It also says to set the ratchet blade to 1.
Of course there isn t a ten foot mat available omg how would one store such a thing so if you want to cut longer than 24 cut without a mat.
If you are using any previous silhouette cutting models cameo 3 portrait 2 etc you must use a cutting mat to cut out cardstock or other paper materials.
When you aren t cutting without a mat you can cut.
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.
The silhouette cameo can cut lengths of vinyl or anything with a backing up to 10 feet long.
I am going to show you using the silhouette studio program that came with your silhouette.
Next the pop out cut feature can be used only with the cameo 4 machine line.
Cut a piece of vinyl slightly larger than your deign and placed it on the cutting mat.
This will bring up a red cut border and will show you the maximum cut able area of your vinyl.
Check the box to show cut border.
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.
I use oracal 651 vinyl for projects like this.
If you ve never done that before don t be intimidated by the idea of going matless.
