Cameo 3 Not Loading Mat All The Way

Ensure the blade is fully seated in the holder and that the lock lever has been turned all the way into the locked position to ensure the blade is providing the correct cutting pressure.

Cameo 3 not loading mat all the way. It goes up to thirty minutes or turns off altogether. Ensure the mat is lined up with the guides on the machine and the edge of the mat is under the roller bar prior to pressing the load mat button. Cameo 3 shuts itself off. How to load vinyl without a mat.

If it is and the mat still won t load proceed to 6. If this does not help proceed to 5. Power on the cameo 3. The blade is not seated all the way down in the holder.

Now select load on your cameo 3. If using the cameo without a cutting. Failure to lock the roller bar. When you load a job that does not have a cutting mat into the cameo 3 machine simply press the load button on your touch screen.

Press the reset all button to clear all commands and then press the load mat button again. When loading the mat into your cameo the left edge of the mat should be aligned with the alignment marking on the far left of the machine. When you remove the cutting mat from your file in silhouette studio the machine knows that you are cutting without a mat and will advance your material into the machine at the correct distance. In most cases there are two quick fixes that will fix the issue and get you cutting successfully in a hurry.

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. Lastly turn back on the cameo 3. The cameo 3 has a built in sleep timer. The same goes for the portrait 2 autoblade.

Choosing the wrong load option load mat vs. Quick video showing proper alignment of the cutting mat on both the silhouette cameo 3 and cameo 4 machines. Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine. If using the cameo cutting mat select load cutting mat.

Mat no mat setting for cutting in addition to how you choose to load your media as we discussed above you will need to tell the software if you are going to be using a mat or not when you cut you will find this option on the design page settings window in the cutting mat section. If you are using a sheet of vinyl most often you will cut using a mat. Not aligning the mat in the proper position. You can choose cameo portrait or none according to how you will be cutting.

Select the gear icon in the upper right of the touch screen.