How To Cut Vinyl Into Sheets

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How to cut vinyl into sheets.

Set the smart dial on your machine to vinyl or if you have an older machine without a smart dial check out cricut s cut settings guide for vinyl. Simple artwork like text is the easiest artwork to cut with a vinyl cutter. A vinyl cutter is used to replace box cutters scissors hand tearing or other inefficient forms of converting vinyl material into sheets. Once the design is cut push the arrow button to unload the mat.

Weed once cutting is complete weed away the excess vinyl from around the cut images. If your silhouette cutting mat is brand new you may want to de stick the cutting mat somewhat by blotting it with a clean t shirt. Trim around outside corners or other protruding objects by making a vertical slice down the sheet. Remove the vinyl from the mat leaving the cut design.

Using your cricut tools. In fact one of my favorite vinyl projects that my kids and i did together was entirely cut by hand. Then load the mat into your cricut machine by pressing the flashing load unload button. Every vinyl cutter can be supplied with an automatic pneumatic drive attachment or it can be incorporated into a fully automatic sheeting system to increase cutting productivity.

Stick a piece of vinyl to your cutting mat making sure the paper backing side is down. Place the vinyl onto the silhouette cutting mat with the backing paper side down onto the mat making sure the vinyl is covering the same area where the design is placed on the virtual mat in silhouette studio. Cut the vinyl from the top down to where it touches the floor. Weed the vinyl to remove the little pieces in between the letters.

Depending on the type of vinyl both the compression and rotary shear technology can be used as a vinyl cutter. You can always cut your vinyl by hand using a pair of scissors or craft knife. Cut a piece of transfer tape close to the same size of the design and remove the paper backing. Bring your artwork into a vinyl cutter.