In order to prevent damage to your cutting strip a mat should always be used when cutting materials without a backing i would rather take the time to load my mat than have to replace the cutting strip on my machine.
Silhouette portrait how to load mat.
On your cameo portrait use the arrow keys to choose load cutting mat align your cutting mat against the machine s rollers and press the enter key.
Place the printed out test page on your cutting mat as shown in silhouette studio.
The stencil is ready for use.
There are two buttons on the silhouette portrait for loading into the machine.
The load media button doesn t load the mat into the machine as far as the load mat button.
What happens if you use load media to load a mat.
In silhouette studio use the blue arrows to move your blade to the inside of the first green box.
As you click on send option on your laptop it starts cutting.
Silhouette cutting mats are available in several sizes.
The top button is for loading a mat and the bottom button is loading media.
Stick cardstock sheet on sticking cutting mat and load it on the silhouette portrait.
Follow the steps below to see what you need to do to load the cutting mat.
Load options for the original cameo cameo 2 and portrait are selected using the buttons on the machine itself.