The blade needs to be able to pierce the material to form clean cut lines.
Silhoette use cutting mat glitter htv.
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Silhouette finally has more autoblades available and is sending me a new one.
When you first go to stick your glitter vinyl to your mat you may notice that is has a strong tendency to curl up.
What is a cutting mat and why use it to cut htv.
Siser heat transfer htv cut settings for silhouette cameo cricut scan n cut graphtec and more.
The end cap unscrews while it s cutting it won t automatically set itself to the cut settings in the send menu etc.
You then load the cutting mat and your material into the cutting machine and voila.
If you re working with the cameo 1 or 2 you ll select load mat unless you want to cut the htv without the mat.
So just like glitter and stripflock holographic needs a longer blade depth and heavier pressure when cutting.
The point of the sticky side is to let you stick your material here heat transfer vinyl onto the mat which holds it in place.
Press the mat up against the roller bar while pressing load on the touch screen.
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We offer a large assortment of htv sheets rolls.
This mat replaces is the regular cutting mat that is initially included with the cameo machine.
Most basically a cutting mat is a lined piece of plastic that has one sticky side.
The mat has a regular adhesive level to hold most cardstock and general material types in place.
Hold it in place with one hand while clicking load or load mat on the touch screen.
Glitter vinyl is a bit stiffer than standard vinyl so you may need to take extra care to make sure your vinyl is firmly secured to your mat before you start cutting or else you risk your designs not cutting well.
I sure hope it works.
You don t need to.
Place the top edge of the cutting mat gently against the rollers and then left edge lined up with the line and arrows on the left side of the machine.
I can use an older style ratchet blade in the adapter and it will cut fine.
This will pull the mat and htv under the rollers and into the correct starting position.
While holographic htv may appear to be as thin as easyweed heat transfer vinyl we actually consider it to be a thick material because of how rigid it is.
The cameo cutting mat is intended for use with the silhouette cameo to hold materials in place when sending jobs to the silhouette machine.
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I almost always use a cutting mat to cut heat transfer vinyl.
Cutting htv without the mat can be done and is helpful when you want to cut a design larger than the 12 or even 24 mat.
