The blade will adjust to the depth it needs to be to cut your vinyl successfully without going through the back.
Silhouette cameo send to cut vinyl.
This will open the send panel.
Now you re ready to make your first vinyl cut.
I often cut multiple pieces of silhouette chipboard and then layer them together to get the thickness i want.
Click the send button along the top tool bar.
Then i would check the red box and uncheck the blue and send it to cut again.
For this silhouette cameo project we want to pick vinyl matte if you re working with oracal 631 or vinyl glossy if you re working with the more popular oracal 651.
For example if i wanted to cut the blue first i would uncheck the red box and send it to cut.
Open design in silhouette studio and resize as desired.
However if your vinyl piece is smaller than what the rollers can adjust to you will need to use a cutting mat.
The cameo 3 has cutting depth of 2mm so if your median exceeds that it will not load or cut properly.
I hope this helps.
How to load vinyl without a mat.
Cut settings can be easiest and trickiest of getting great cut.
Cut settings is located in the send tab in silhouette studio.
The tricky news is that each piece of vinyl blade and machine can cut a little differently.
You need to make sure you text cut every time you change vinyl to avoid wasting materials.
Have a vinyl project that contains more than one color.
This is a basic tutorial on how to cut and apply a vinyl decal with your silhouette cameo.
If you start by cutting a smooth htv like easyweed which comes in a lot of colors you ll learn the basics and feel more confident when you start experimenting with glitter heat transfer vinyl stretch htv.
Place the vinyl on the correct size of mat you have selected in the silhouette software.
These are the best heat transfer vinyl brands for quality and they cut very easily and consistently on silhouette cameo and portrait.
You can access the cut settings by clicking on the send tab in silhouette studio.
Now select load on your cameo 3.
If you are using a silhouette cameo 3 you are equipped with an automatic blade.
Learn how to cut multiple colors with a silhouette with this easy tutorial.
Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine.
Load the vinyl into your silhouette.
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.