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Loding vinyl into cameo 3.
Select load cut mat from the display.
Cameo 3 features a dual carriage.
Weed the vinyl removing all the excess vinyl you don t want to be applied to your t shirt.
Press load from the control panel on the front of the machine.
It s adhesive on one side for holding our material securely in place.
Quick video showing proper alignment of the cutting mat on both the silhouette cameo 3 and cameo 4 machines.
When loading a cutting mat into your silhouette align the mat with the white rollers.
Make sure the arrow on the top of the mat is pointing into the machine.
Once the document is printed load it onto your cutting mat being careful to align it correctly and feed the mat into the machine when pressing load cut mat on the lcd screen.
Use the blue line on the left hand side of your machine as a guide to align your mat.
If you are loading it directly be sure to adjust the width of the rollers so the vinyl fits perfectly.
You can load the material directly into your silhouette or you can load it on a cutting mat.
Keep the cut design on the clear backing sheet.
Press load mat.
The cameo 3 should automatically detect your registration marks at this point but if it doesn t you can click retry manually in silhouette studio after.
If you are using the silhouette autoblade with a cameo 3.
Click send down at the bottom and watch as your design is cut out.
Load the cutting mat into your silhouette cameo.
You can load it directly or on a cutting mat.
The plastic backing needs to be facing down.
With the crosscutter track attached directly to the back you will get a perfectly straight edge every time.
Use a hooked weeding tool or an x acto knife for the small areas.
If you re loading the material directly set the width of your rollers to accommodate the vinyl place the material on the silhouette plastic backing side down select load media on the screen of your silhouette and push the enter button to.
Now load the heat transfer vinyl into the silhouette.
Your machine will roll your mat into the cutting area.
Then when you use the remaining media for a different project your cameo will load the nice even edge very easily.
Position the material on your silhouette and choose load media on the silhouette s screen.
This is going to be how we load most material into our silhouette machine.