Loding Vinyl Into Cameo 3

You can load the material directly into your silhouette or you can load it on a cutting mat.

Loding vinyl into cameo 3.

Press load from the control panel on the front of the machine. Load the mat with the vinyl on it into the machine positioning the mat is the same for each of the machines but actually loading it is slightly different. With the crosscutter track attached directly to the back you will get a perfectly straight edge every time. If you are loading it directly be sure to adjust the width of the rollers so the vinyl fits perfectly.

Cameo 3 features a dual carriage. Use a hooked weeding tool or an x acto knife for the small areas. Make sure the arrow on the top of the mat is pointing into the machine. If you are using the silhouette autoblade with a cameo 3.

If you use rolls of vinyl the crosscutter will be very helpful. Load the cutting mat into your silhouette cameo. Your silhouette cameo 3 if not here s the best deal as of september 2018 12 inch cutting mat. Weed the vinyl removing all the excess vinyl you don t want to be applied to your t shirt.

Position the material on your silhouette and choose load media on the silhouette s screen. Quick video showing proper alignment of the cutting mat on both the silhouette cameo 3 and cameo 4 machines. Once the document is printed load it onto your cutting mat being careful to align it correctly and feed the mat into the machine when pressing load cut mat on the lcd screen. If you re loading the material directly set the width of your rollers to accommodate the vinyl place the material on the silhouette plastic backing side down select load media on the screen of your silhouette and push the enter button to.

Use the blue line on the left hand side of your machine as a guide to align your mat. You can load it directly or on a cutting mat. Then when you use the remaining media for a different project your cameo will load the nice even edge very easily. Click send down at the bottom and watch as your design is cut out.

The plastic backing needs to be facing down. Keep the cut design on the clear backing sheet. Your machine will roll your mat into the cutting area. Press load mat.

Now load the heat transfer vinyl into the silhouette. When loading a cutting mat into your silhouette align the mat with the white rollers. This is going to be how we load most material into our silhouette machine. It s adhesive on one side for holding our material securely in place.