Silhouette Is Tearing Vinyl

My machine is tearing or dragging through my material there are several variables that may cause a machine to tear through material.

Silhouette is tearing vinyl.

But with just a small tweak in silhouette studio you can pretty much cut any font no matter how small intricate or thin and even script fonts. Make sure your cutting mat is pretty sticky when place the vinyl on it to cut. I have bought 2 new blades in the last week. My cameo will not make a clean cut on monograms.

I have cleaned the. When a font is very thin the silhouette cameo blade passes by the same area twice and can cause the vinyl to pull up or tear while cutting. The vinyl sticks to the blade and peels up during the cut. Happy crafters has all the trending colors of htv and oracal 651 that you need as well as the customer service to help you get your job done.

Use a sticky mat. We re answering a reader question on the blog today. This will keep the material firmly in place. I am using silhouette vinyl.

Discover the creative world of silhouette. If it happens to finish the cut without tearing the vinyl the cut is not clean and the curly part of the letters comes up when weeding. Blade ratchet to change blade setting on each machine made in the last 3 years or so there is a round indentation on the machine in the lower left hand side. Fortunately this problem can usually be resolved with some basic troubleshooting steps.

This is a tool you can use to change the setting on the blade. 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. This video shows how i resolved a silhouette vinyl cutting issue. Shop desktop cutting machines including the silhouette cameo plus our selection of cutting materials and other accessories.

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