Silhouette Vinyl Coming Off During Cutting

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Silhouette vinyl coming off during cutting. When i come back to it it seems to work. 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. I checked a lot of tutorials and i placed the mat the same way three times. Make sure your cutting mat is pretty sticky when place the vinyl on it to cut.

Sometimes i turn it off and walk away. 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. Discover the creative world of silhouette. Cutting without a mat this option is great because you can cut smaller pieces of vinyl without a mat.

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. Make sure that you paper is properly aligned on the cutting mat. Literally i placed the same sheet 3 different times to see if at least it was cutting off the lines but the cuts were the same the three times but not at all. How to load vinyl without a mat.

Now i m on the edge of my deadline and i really don t know what to do. 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. The backing of the vinyl allows your silhouette to grip it when printing. Now you are ready to design.

If all else fails sometimes turning it off and turning it back on plus restarting the silhouette studio software can fix your problem. I love this option because you can use long rolls of vinyl and cut multiple projects at once. Use a sticky mat. Place the vinyl on the correct size of mat you have selected in the silhouette software.

Now select load on your cameo 3. Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine.