Silhouette Settings For Cutting On Vinyl Without Mat

Make sure you are cutting something with backing like vinyl ps this is my favorite vinyl ever and it s an amazing price on amazon with free shipping if you cut something like paper without a mat the piece you cut out won t have anywhere to go and it will be sliding around in your.

Silhouette settings for cutting on vinyl without mat.

I used oracal 631 for this project and used the vinyl matte setting in the silhouette software to get a beautiful cut. Speed of five and force at four. Maybe you prefer to cut vinyl without a silhouette cutting mat or maybe the material you re cutting is too long to fit on a cutting mat. And it cut beautifully.

This silhouette tutorial will walk you through the three quick steps to successfully set. Save those mats for cardstock. I am going to show you using the silhouette studio program that came with your silhouette. Position the design on the mat the rollers may leave an indentation along the edge of the vinyl like this.

And you can see that it didn t cut all the way through that backing. Whatever the reason both silhouette studio and your silhouette cameo need to be set up correctly to cut without a mat. If you are using any previous silhouette cutting models cameo 3 portrait 2 etc you must use a cutting mat to cut out cardstock or other paper materials. 1 regular settings for using a 12 x 12 mat.

3 after setting the cutting mat to none the screen mat has disappeared. Okay so we cut without a mat let see how that goes. 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. And weed out a bit here.

Can t wait to see what you decide to cut without a mat. This is a great feature to have the ability to cut materials without a mat for things longer like this 12 x 33 wall decal. 2 after adjusting the page size to longer than the mat mat s still underneath. I m using glossy vinyl my ratchet blade and i have my cut setting on a two.

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. So i m ready to cut this my selecting the send button. When you aren t cutting without a mat you can cut.