Silhouette Blade Settings For Cutting Vinyl Without A Cutting Mat

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.

Silhouette blade settings for cutting vinyl without a cutting mat.

Cut settings can be easiest and trickiest of getting great cut. Save those mats for cardstock. If you ve never done that before don t be intimidated by the idea of going matless. Next something to keep in mind when cutting without a mat you lose 1 4 of cut able space on your material on the left right side and 1 of cut able space on the backside.

Don t worry be crafty. It also says to set the ratchet blade to 1. When you aren t cutting without a mat you can cut. Cut a piece of vinyl slightly larger than your deign and placed it on the cutting mat.

The tricky news is that each piece of vinyl blade and machine can cut a little differently. Next the pop out cut feature can be used only with the cameo 4 machine line. You need to make sure you text cut every time you change vinyl to avoid wasting materials. Lastly ensure you ve selected the correct cut settings before cutting out your design by performing a test.

To cut scroll down. Check the box to show cut border. 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. Of course there isn t a ten foot mat available omg how would one store such a thing so if you want to cut longer than 24 cut without a mat.

You can access the cut settings by clicking on the send tab in silhouette studio. Don t be intimated by cutting vinyl without a mat on the silhouette cameo. I use oracal 651 vinyl for projects like this. Happy crafters has all the trending colors of htv and oracal 651 that you need as well as the customer service to help you get your job done.

This will bring up a red cut border and will show you the maximum cut able area of your vinyl. Looking for heat transfer vinyl for shirts or adhesive vinyl for mugs windows and more that can be cut in your silhouette cameo circuit explore or brother scan n cut. I am going to show you using the silhouette studio program that came with your silhouette. Clicking on vinyl in material settings tells us that we need to use all the platforms 2 2 1 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.