Most basically a cutting mat is a lined piece of plastic that has one sticky side.
Silhoette use cutting mat glitter htv.
If you re working with the cameo 1 or 2 you ll select load mat unless you want to cut the htv without the mat.
You then load the cutting mat and your material into the cutting machine and voila.
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So if you stick it to a mat you can use any sized piece of vinyl.
The point of the sticky side is to let you stick your material here heat transfer vinyl onto the mat which holds it in place.
It s thick enough to go through on it s own but i like the extra security of sticking it to the mat so that i can be sure it doesn t move.
What is a cutting mat and why use it to cut htv.
I can use an older style ratchet blade in the adapter and it will cut fine.
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I sure hope it works.
The mat has a regular adhesive level to hold most cardstock and general material types in place.
Siser easyweed siser stretch siser glitter siser ultralite siser brick siser flock siser metallic siser electric.
The cameo cutting mat is intended for use with the silhouette cameo to hold materials in place when sending jobs to the silhouette machine.
The end cap unscrews while it s cutting it won t automatically set itself to the cut settings in the send menu etc.
The blade needs to be able to pierce the material to form clean cut lines.
I almost always use a cutting mat to cut heat transfer vinyl.
Press the mat up against the roller bar while pressing load on the touch screen.
You don t need to.
Hold it in place with one hand while clicking load or load mat on the touch screen.
When you first go to stick your glitter vinyl to your mat you may notice that is has a strong tendency to curl up.
Siser heat transfer htv cut settings for silhouette cameo cricut scan n cut graphtec and more.
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This mat replaces is the regular cutting mat that is initially included with the cameo machine.
Glitter vinyl is a bit stiffer than standard vinyl so you may need to take extra care to make sure your vinyl is firmly secured to your mat before you start cutting or else you risk your designs not cutting well.
Place the top edge of the cutting mat gently against the rollers and then left edge lined up with the line and arrows on the left side of the machine.
Silhouette cameo 3 project with fabric and glitter heat transfer vinyl htv on a custom shirt duration.
Cutting htv without the mat can be done and is helpful when you want to cut a design larger than the 12 or even 24 mat.
While holographic htv may appear to be as thin as easyweed heat transfer vinyl we actually consider it to be a thick material because of how rigid it is.