Follow the steps below to see what you need to do to load the cutting mat.
Silhouette portrait mat won t load.
Place the vinyl on the correct size of mat you have selected in the silhouette software.
Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine.
If the vinyl doesn t load straight unload and reload until it does.
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.
Just as the name implies choose load mat when cutting anything that you have placed onto a cutting mat.
If you have a cameo 3 click load on the panel to load the vinyl into the machine.
If you have a cameo 1 or 2 select load media from the panel.
Use your silhouette without a mat when you are working on vinyl projects.
Materials that have a backing you don t intend to cut through such as vinyl or sticker paper can be cut.
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.
Now select load on your cameo 3.
Send it to cut.
If it doesn t go in straight it won t be long before it goes awry.
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.