Silhouette Vinyl Coming Off During Cutting

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Silhouette vinyl coming off during cutting. The angle of the blade goes into the vinyl at a slightly different angle than the regular silhouette ratchet blade or auto blade which again prevents the vinyl from being torn. Make sure that you paper is properly aligned on the cutting mat. Cut your design apart and place them on separate pages. Cutting without a mat this option is great because you can cut smaller pieces of vinyl without a mat.

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. Literally i placed the same sheet 3 different times to see if at least it was cutting off the lines but the cuts were the same the three times but not at all. 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. I love this option because you can use long rolls of vinyl and cut multiple projects at once.

Following the steps silhouette gave me. How to load vinyl without a mat. If all else fails sometimes turning it off and turning it back on plus restarting the silhouette studio software can fix your problem. Now i m on the edge of my deadline and i really don t know what to do.

Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine. I checked a lot of tutorials and i placed the mat the same way three times. Now you are ready to design. Make sure your cutting mat is pretty sticky when place the vinyl on it to cut.

When i come back to it it seems to work. Sometimes i turn it off and walk away. Place the vinyl on the correct size of mat you have selected in the silhouette software. Discover the creative world of silhouette.

Use a sticky mat. The backing of the vinyl allows your silhouette to grip it when printing.