Silhouette Settings For Cutting On Vinyl Without Mat

This silhouette tutorial will walk you through the three quick steps to successfully set.

Silhouette settings for cutting on vinyl without mat.

So i m ready to cut this my selecting the send button. Maybe you prefer to cut vinyl without a silhouette cutting mat or maybe the material you re cutting is too long to fit on a cutting mat. Can t wait to see what you decide to cut without a mat. 3 after setting the cutting mat to none the screen mat has disappeared.

I m using glossy vinyl my ratchet blade and i have my cut setting on a two. Don t be intimated by cutting vinyl without a mat on the silhouette cameo. When you aren t cutting without a mat you can cut. And it cut beautifully.

Next the pop out cut feature can be used only with the cameo 4 machine line. 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. Speed of five and force at four. I used oracal 631 for this project and used the vinyl matte setting in the silhouette software to get a beautiful cut.

Whatever the reason both silhouette studio and your silhouette cameo need to be set up correctly to cut without a mat. Make sure you are cutting something with backing like vinyl ps this is my favorite vinyl ever and it s an amazing price on amazon with free shipping if you cut something like paper without a mat the piece you cut out won t have anywhere to go and it will be sliding around in your. And weed out a bit here. Position the design on the mat the rollers may leave an indentation along the edge of the vinyl like this.

This is a great feature to have the ability to cut materials without a mat for things longer like this 12 x 33 wall decal. 2 after adjusting the page size to longer than the mat mat s still underneath. Okay so we cut without a mat let see how that goes. 1 regular settings for using a 12 x 12 mat.

I am going to show you using the silhouette studio program that came with your silhouette. And you can see that it didn t cut all the way through that backing. Save those mats for cardstock.