As you may notice some of the materials that the silhouette and cricut can cut do not have pre made settings and it can be such a pain to try to cut new materials that do not have a setting already on the software or on your machine.
Cameo 3 settings for vinyl.
For the silhouette cameo use the heat transfer material with the appropriate finish smooth flocked metallic etc.
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For the siser easyweed used in this tutorial siser s recommended settings are.
When i called silhouette about a defective blade they mentioned that people should not be cutting even thin chipboard or anything.
The cut settings for htv depend on your machine and what type of heat transfer vinyl.
The tricky news is that each piece of vinyl blade and machine can cut a little differently.
Speed may change depending on the intricacy of the cutting as well we have added a new silhouette cameo chart.
I was so excited to see that expressions vinyl made this little cheat sheet chart.
Vinyl matte blade 1 speed 5 force 10 blade 3 speed 3 pressure 2.
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Card stock plain blade 1 speed 4 force 14 blade 3 speed 3 pressure 3 oracal 631 custom.
You need to make sure you text cut every time you change vinyl to avoid wasting materials.
Cut settings can be easiest and trickiest of getting great cut.
The purpose of the cutting mat is to hold your vinyl in place while cutting we will show you how to use this below.
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Heat transfer smooth.
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This chart is for machines that are using the latest software update which is version 3.
Updated march 7 2012 to include this tip from diane i got the impression that you should never use your cameo with the blade set higher than 3.
The settings in the chart are what has worked for us on our machines.
11 your cameo 3 will always include a cutting mat.
After you make the material type in the send panel the recommended cut settings for vinyl will be displayed.
This can be soooo annoying.
12 also to help with the cutting mat the cameo includes fold out mat supports.
For this silhouette cameo project we want to pick vinyl matte if you re working with oracal 631 or vinyl glossy if you re working with the more popular oracal 651.
If you look at the presets none of them use a blade setting higher than 3.
