Silhouette Cutting Through Vinyl

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Silhouette cutting through vinyl. For me this is the bane of using vinyl. If your silhouette stops cutting after it has started prior to fully completing the job and reports that the job is complete or if your silhouette cuts a stray line through the middle of the job generally a diagonal line then the issue probably that a larger packet of information is being pushed from the computer to your silhouette. Place the vinyl onto the silhouette cutting mat with the backing paper side down onto the mat making sure the vinyl is covering the same area where the design is placed on the virtual mat in silhouette studio. Blade obstructed if a piece of scrap material usually vinyl or paper is stuck on the blade it will cause cutting issues with your.

If you are new to silhouette or need more information on using your silhouette machine in general make sure and check out our silhouette boot camp where we walk through all the basics of the machine. Now you are ready to design. Cutting without a mat this option is great because you can cut smaller pieces of vinyl without a mat. The tricky news is that each piece of vinyl blade and machine can.

The backing of the vinyl allows your silhouette to grip it when printing. I love this option because you can use long rolls of vinyl and cut multiple projects at once. Discover the creative world of silhouette. 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.

In most cases there are two quick fixes that will fix the issue and get you cutting successfully in a hurry. It took me a long time to get it right and i often have to make small adjustments for various reasons ie. The same goes for the portrait 2 autoblade. How to stop cutting through vinyl backing.

I have a silhouette portrait it was cutting fine then all of a sudden it just seems to be scori g the vinyl i ve been through all the trouble shootings and adjusted the blade each time on each setting i ve cleaned the blade sharpened and sharpened it the settings on the computer haven t been changed. This video shows how i resolved a silhouette vinyl cutting issue. Trying out new vinyl or felt a blunt blade or any other number of reasons.