You may have to work on moving the rollers on a cameo 1.
Silhouette cameo 3 machine not seeing my whole cutting mat.
If your silhouette makes noise while cutting it is probably normal.
I have a cameo 1 as well but use my cameo 3 without the mat as the rollers are easier to move.
The mat should be lined up with the gray line on the bottom part of the cameo not pushed all the way up against the gray cylinder.
I was frantic over the whole paused cameo 3.
Blue white lock is not locked going right along with the blade not being full in the holder if the blade lock is not fully turned to the right to lock the blade into place on a cameo 1 or 2 or if the lock isn t push fully in on a cameo 3 it can also cause the silhouette blade not to cut or not to cut correctly.
Thanks again for sharing.
The same goes for the portrait 2 autoblade.
I checked a lot of tutorials and i placed the mat the same way three times.
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.
My silhouette cameo went wonky when it hit a half sheet of paper on the mat.
I was then cutting like a crazy quilt and making a horrible grinding noise.
If you are using letter size cardstock on the cameo and not the full 12 12 mat you need to move the plastic roller on the right in to the notches towards the middle so that.
Thank you so much for posting this including and especially the solution.
One of the most common issues from silhouette cameo beginners is that their cameo 3 autoblade is cutting through the vinyl or other material and the backing.
But when in need to cut stuff with the mat and need it to cut my stickers it just cuts so off.
Lift your silhouette s lid to make sure any tape that is connecting the motor to the side of the unit has been removed.
I called and waited on the 1 800 number until they offered to call me back.
In most cases there are two quick fixes that will fix the issue and get you cutting successfully in a hurry.
I waited some more while trying to fix the problem myself to no avail and finally i came to this site and happened upon your sage advice and my wonderful cameo 3 is again cutting like a dream.
I was so far off.
Machine will not cut no cut lines send to cameo and says job complete and it never cut a thing.
Yes all of the silhouette cameo machines portrait machines can cut without a mat.
I have worked on this problem for a few days and posted a thread yesterday called cutting top of mat silhouette cameo 3 i received numerous helpful questions and suggestions but the cure was following the suggested solution above.
I was so far off.
