I have worked on this problem for a few days and posted a thread yesterday called cutting top of mat silhouette cameo 3 i received numerous helpful questions and suggestions but the cure was following the suggested solution above.
Silhouette cameo 3 machine not seeing my whole cutting mat.
If your silhouette makes noise while cutting it is probably normal.
You may have to work on moving the rollers on a cameo 1.
If you are using letter size cardstock on the cameo and not the full 12 12 mat you need to move the plastic roller on the right in to the notches towards the middle so that.
I was frantic over the whole paused cameo 3.
Lift your silhouette s lid to make sure any tape that is connecting the motor to the side of the unit has been removed.
Yes all of the silhouette cameo machines portrait machines can cut without a mat.
But when in need to cut stuff with the mat and need it to cut my stickers it just cuts so off.
My silhouette cameo went wonky when it hit a half sheet of paper on the mat.
Thanks again for sharing.
The mat should be lined up with the gray line on the bottom part of the cameo not pushed all the way up against the gray cylinder.
However the rollers are a bit different.
Silhouette machine my silhouette machine is so loud.
One of the most common issues from silhouette cameo beginners is that their cameo 3 autoblade is cutting through the vinyl or other material and the backing.
Machine will not cut no cut lines send to cameo and says job complete and it never cut a thing.
I was then cutting like a crazy quilt and making a horrible grinding noise.
In most cases there are two quick fixes that will fix the issue and get you cutting successfully in a hurry.
I waited some more while trying to fix the problem myself to no avail and finally i came to this site and happened upon your sage advice and my wonderful cameo 3 is again cutting like a dream.
Blue white lock is not locked going right along with the blade not being full in the holder if the blade lock is not fully turned to the right to lock the blade into place on a cameo 1 or 2 or if the lock isn t push fully in on a cameo 3 it can also cause the silhouette blade not to cut or not to cut correctly.
Thank you so much for posting this including and especially the solution.
I have a cameo 1 as well but use my cameo 3 without the mat as the rollers are easier to move.
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.
I was so far off.
I checked a lot of tutorials and i placed the mat the same way three times.
They can be a bit tricky.