Trying out new vinyl or felt a blunt blade or any other number of reasons.
Silhouette cutting through vinyl.
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.
One of the most common issues from silhouette cameo beginners is that their cameo 3 autoblade is cutting through the vinyl or other material and the backing.
Cut settings can be easiest and trickiest of getting great cut.
If your silhouette stops cutting after it has started prior to fully completing the job and reports that the job is complete or if your silhouette cuts a stray line through the middle of the job generally a diagonal line then the issue probably that a larger packet of information is being pushed from the computer to your silhouette.
For me this is the bane of using vinyl.
The backing of the vinyl allows your silhouette to grip it when printing.
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.
This video shows how i resolved a silhouette vinyl cutting issue.
Blade obstructed if a piece of scrap material usually vinyl or paper is stuck on the blade it will cause cutting issues with your.
Cutting without a mat this option is great because you can cut smaller pieces of vinyl without a mat.
I have a silhouette portrait it was cutting fine then all of a sudden it just seems to be scori g the vinyl i ve been through all the trouble shootings and adjusted the blade each time on each setting i ve cleaned the blade sharpened and sharpened it the settings on the computer haven t been changed.
Now you are ready to design.
How to stop cutting through vinyl backing.
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The same goes for the portrait 2 autoblade.
The tricky news is that each piece of vinyl blade and machine can.
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It took me a long time to get it right and i often have to make small adjustments for various reasons ie.
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