The tricky news is that each piece of vinyl blade and machine can cut a little differently.
Silhouette studio cut settings for contact paper 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.
I spent several hours trying to find the best silhouette settings for cutting contact paper over the weekend as i.
Cut settings can be easiest and trickiest of getting great cut.
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1 regular settings for using a 12 x 12 mat.
I just feed the paper directly into my cameo.
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.
When peeling off the backing of the contact paper keep everything in one piece.
When working with the longer mat you need to tell the software that that s what you re doing.
I finally discovered that if i put the contact paper on the sticky mat with the front side down i got the clear plastic contact paper it would not bunch.
Insert your contact paper directly into the machine without a mat.
You can access the cut settings by clicking on the send tab in silhouette studio.
Position the design on the mat the rollers may leave an indentation along the edge of the vinyl like this.
Click on the open the design settings window icon a.
To do that in silhouette studio v3.
3 more tips for cutting paper with silhouette in order to cut any type of paper you need to use a cutting mat.
I used oracal 631 for this project and used the vinyl matte setting in the silhouette software to get a beautiful cut.
Can t wait to see what you decide to cut without a mat.
I am going to show you using the silhouette studio program that came with your silhouette.
3 after setting the cutting mat to none the screen mat has disappeared.
Keep it in tact.
2 after adjusting the page size to longer than the mat mat s still underneath.
You need to make sure you text cut every time you change vinyl to avoid wasting materials.
So never try to cut paper without one.