Silhouette Cameo Cutting Larger Than Mat

They can be a bit tricky.

Silhouette cameo cutting larger than mat.

Size separate your design. Shop desktop cutting machines including the silhouette cameo plus our selection of cutting materials and other accessories. Now you re all set to cut your piece of long piece of vinyl without the cutting mat. Then in the cutting mat section scroll down and select the cameo 12 x 24 in option.

Yes all of the silhouette cameo machines portrait machines can cut without a mat. If you ve never done that before don t be intimidated by the idea of going matless. The silhouette cameo can cut lengths of vinyl or anything with a backing up to 10 feet long. You may have to work on moving the rollers on a cameo 1.

All you need to do to cut longer than the mat is change a few settings in silhouette studio. Size your wall graphic design for however large you want it to be don t worry about it being larger than the mat size. Have you ever wondered how to do that. You ll notice that your design area will open by default with a 12x12 virtual cutting mat and work area.

In the page setup panel you can see the page size is set to automatic cameo and the cutting mat is the 12x12. You are now set up to cut on a 24 inch cut mat. I ve seen tons of extra large vinyl cutouts floating around on pinterest and i ve always thought gee i bet i could do that with my cameo. The first thing you want to do is open silhouette studio.

Fortunately easyweed can be cut in the silhouette cameo without a cutting mat. Of course there isn t a ten foot mat available omg how would one store such a thing so if you want to cut longer than 24 cut without a mat. I absolutely love my silhouette cameo but a few months ago i was wanting to cut a custom piece that was larger than the standard 12 12 square cut mat. I have a cameo 1 as well but use my cameo 3 without the mat as the rollers are easier to move.

However the rollers are a bit different. As a side note silhouette now sells 12x24 cameo cutting mats so it s now possible to cut more materials than just vinyl that are longer than the standard mat. No such luck if you re a portrait user.