Silhouette Is Tearing Vinyl

My cameo will not make a clean cut on monograms.

Silhouette is tearing vinyl.

Just remove the blade from the carriage put it blade side down into the indention and turn until the blade is on the setting you want. The angle of the blade goes into the vinyl at a slightly different angle than the regular silhouette ratchet blade or auto blade which again prevents the vinyl from being torn. We re answering a reader question on the blog today. 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.

Make sure your cutting mat is pretty sticky when place the vinyl on it to cut. My machine is tearing or dragging through my material there are several variables that may cause a machine to tear through material. When a font is very thin the silhouette cameo blade passes by the same area twice and can cause the vinyl to pull up or tear while cutting. Blade ratchet to change blade setting on each machine made in the last 3 years or so there is a round indentation on the machine in the lower left hand side.

Fortunately this problem can usually be resolved with some basic troubleshooting steps. I have bought 2 new blades in the last week. If it happens to finish the cut without tearing the vinyl the cut is not clean and the curly part of the letters comes up when weeding. Discover the creative world of silhouette.

But with just a small tweak in silhouette studio you can pretty much cut any font no matter how small intricate or thin and even script fonts. This will keep the material firmly in place. If your cricut maker or cricut explore machine is tearing or dragging through the material check the following. I am using silhouette vinyl.

Shop desktop cutting machines including the silhouette cameo plus our selection of cutting materials and other accessories. This video shows how i resolved a silhouette vinyl cutting issue. Don t worry be crafty. Use a sticky mat.

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