Silhouette Vinyl Coming Off During Cutting

Use a sticky mat.

Silhouette vinyl coming off during cutting.

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. I checked a lot of tutorials and i placed the mat the same way three times. Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine. Now you are ready to design.

Place the vinyl on the correct size of mat you have selected in the silhouette software. This will keep the material firmly in place. If all else fails sometimes turning it off and turning it back on plus restarting the silhouette studio software can fix your problem. Make sure that you paper is properly aligned on the cutting mat.

The angle of the blade goes into the vinyl at a slightly different angle than the regular silhouette ratchet blade or auto blade which again prevents the vinyl from being torn. Literally i placed the same sheet 3 different times to see if at least it was cutting off the lines but the cuts were the same the three times but not at all. Cutting without a mat this option is great because you can cut smaller pieces of vinyl without a mat. Following the steps silhouette gave me.

I love this option because you can use long rolls of vinyl and cut multiple projects at once. How to load vinyl without a mat. Now select load on your cameo 3. When i come back to it it seems to work.

Sometimes i turn it off and walk away. The backing of the vinyl allows your silhouette to grip it when printing. Make sure your cutting mat is pretty sticky when place the vinyl on it to cut. Now i m on the edge of my deadline and i really don t know what to do.

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. 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.