Silhouette Starts Cutting Off Mat

This mat replaces is the regular cutting mat that is initially included with the cameo machine.

Silhouette starts cutting off mat.

My silhouette cameo went wonky when it hit a half sheet of paper on the mat. Luckily i anticipated that some mat related disaster might befall me and i bought two extra silhouette mats a few weeks ago. The mat has a regular adhesive level to hold most cardstock and general material types in place. The cameo cutting mat is intended for use with the silhouette cameo to hold materials in place when sending jobs to the silhouette machine.

If your machine starts cutting higher than the edge of your material and cuts into the top of the cutting mat you probably selected load media instead of load cut mat when loading the cutting mat into your machine. I was then cutting like a crazy quilt and making a horrible grinding noise. In those instances the blade can start cutting closer to the edge of the loaded material. Silhouette cameo 4 won t read print and cut registration marks if your silhouette cameo 4 wont read registration marks for print and cut it is likely trying to read the grid lines on your cutting mat left.

Shop desktop cutting machines including the silhouette cameo plus our selection of cutting materials and other accessories. It s true that a few cuts off the main part of your mat won t destroy it like this unless you re double cutting with a blade set to five 0r above then you ll have a nifty hanging area for your mat like i do. My silhouette starts cutting above my material on the cutting mat. The fix is to move the paper or material on the cutting mat over and up just slightly so it covers the top and left edge of the grid line.