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.
Silhouette portrait how to load mat.
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As you click on send option on your laptop it starts cutting.
In silhouette studio use the blue arrows to move your blade to the inside of the first green box.
The stencil is ready for use.
Stick cardstock sheet on sticking cutting mat and load it on the silhouette portrait.
The top button is for loading a mat and the bottom button is loading media.
Follow the steps below to see what you need to do to load the cutting 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.
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.
What happens if you use load media to load a mat.
Load options for the original cameo cameo 2 and portrait are selected using the buttons on the machine itself.
Silhouette cutting mats are available in several sizes.
The load media button doesn t load the mat into the machine as far as the load mat button.