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Silhouette cameo cut settings for heat transfer vinyl.
Updated march 7 2012 to include this tip from diane i got the impression that you should never use your cameo with the blade set higher than 3.
Youc an use a heat press or an iron although a heat press is highly recommended if you re doing a lot of htv projects or selling at all.
The common cameo setting in cutting ordinary heat transfer vinyl.
Don t worry be crafty.
In this case you will want to use the smooth heat transfer material setting your blade at 3 a speed of 8 and a force of 6.
You need to flip the heat transfer material to a mirror image before you cut.
Buy silhouette cameo 4.
Heat transfer vinyl is a special type of vinyl that can be cut on the silhouette cutting machines which can then be applied to fabric be it clothing pillow covers bags etc with heat and pressure.
This is required because when you will use your heat press machine on your fabric the.
If this is the first time you are doing this for the first time start with a simple design.
If you look at the presets none of them use a blade setting higher than 3.
You can use any design that the silhouette cameo can cut.
When i called silhouette about a defective blade they mentioned that people should not be cutting even thin chipboard or anything.
1 load your design in silhouette studio.
Now follow the step enlisted below to understand how to cut heat transfer vinyl with silhouette cameo 3.
Cutting the heat transfer vinyl.
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For this cutting demo we used siser easyweed.
Setting your first design.
Select mirror left or mirror right.
When you load your design to the silhouette s studio software click the graphic button and hit the replicate icon located at the bottom of the toolbar.
6 under the application instructions tab within most product pages on our website you will find the cutting instructions for the cameo.
2 now you have to flip your design so that you can obtain a mirrored version.
Setting up the silhouette cameo.