Use your silhouette without a mat when you are working on vinyl projects.
Silhouette portrait mat won t load.
If it doesn t go in straight it won t be long before it goes awry.
Now select load on your cameo 3.
If the vinyl doesn t load straight unload and reload until it does.
Materials that have a backing you don t intend to cut through such as vinyl or sticker paper can be cut.
How to load vinyl without a mat.
Silhouette cutting mats are available in several sizes.
Silhouette portrait help this is a need to know video but even if you do this right you can run into troubles with the cutting thanks for watching.
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.
If you have a cameo 1 or 2 select load media from the panel.
If you have a cameo 3 click load on the panel to load the vinyl into the machine.
Just as the name implies choose load mat when cutting anything that you have placed onto a cutting mat.
Follow the steps below to see what you need to do to load the cutting mat.
Place the vinyl on the correct size of mat you have selected in the silhouette software.