I am going to show you using the silhouette studio program that came with your silhouette.
Silhouette blade settings for cutting vinyl without a cutting mat.
The silhouette cameo can cut lengths of vinyl or anything with a backing up to 10 feet long.
It s permanent and cuts and weeds beautifully.
Check the box to show cut border.
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.
Save those mats for cardstock.
Don t be intimated by cutting vinyl without a mat on the silhouette cameo.
Next the pop out cut feature can be used only with the cameo 4 machine line.
You need to make sure you text cut every time you change vinyl to avoid wasting materials.
To cut scroll down.
I use oracal 651 vinyl for projects like this.
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.
If you ve never done that before don t be intimidated by the idea of going matless.
You can access the cut settings by clicking on the send tab in silhouette studio.
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.
Don t worry be crafty.
Cut settings can be easiest and trickiest of getting great cut.
When you aren t cutting without a mat you can cut.
Clicking on vinyl in material settings tells us that we need to use all the platforms 2 2 1 mat.
Happy crafters has all the trending colors of htv and oracal 651 that you need as well as the customer service to help you get your job done.
Lastly ensure you ve selected the correct cut settings before cutting out your design by performing a test.
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.
It also says to set the ratchet blade to 1.
Make sure you are cutting something with backing like vinyl ps this is my favorite vinyl ever and it s an amazing price on amazon with free shipping if you cut something like paper without a mat the piece you cut out won t have anywhere to go and it will be sliding around in your.
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.
This will bring up a red cut border and will show you the maximum cut able area of your vinyl.
