Silhouette Is Tearing Vinyl

If your cricut maker or cricut explore machine is tearing or dragging through the material check the following.

Silhouette is tearing vinyl.

I have cleaned the. This video shows how i resolved a silhouette vinyl cutting issue. Blade ratchet to change blade setting on each machine made in the last 3 years or so there is a round indentation on the machine in the lower left hand side. Fortunately this problem can usually be resolved with some basic troubleshooting steps.

Don t worry be crafty. I have bought 2 new blades in the last week. But with just a small tweak in silhouette studio you can pretty much cut any font no matter how small intricate or thin and even script fonts. The vinyl sticks to the blade and peels up during the cut.

I am using silhouette vinyl. When a font is very thin the silhouette cameo blade passes by the same area twice and can cause the vinyl to pull up or tear while cutting. If it happens to finish the cut without tearing the vinyl the cut is not clean and the curly part of the letters comes up when weeding. My machine is tearing or dragging through my material there are several variables that may cause a machine to tear through material.

Shop desktop cutting machines including the silhouette cameo plus our selection of cutting materials and other accessories. Looking for heat transfer vinyl for shirts or adhesive vinyl for mugs windows and more that can be cut in your silhouette cameo circuit explore or brother scan n cut. Just remove the blade from the carriage put it blade side down into the indention and turn until the blade is on the setting you want. My cameo will not make a clean cut on monograms.

We re answering a reader question on the blog today. The angle of the blade goes into the vinyl at a slightly different angle than the regular silhouette ratchet blade or auto blade which again prevents the vinyl from being torn. Make sure your cutting mat is pretty sticky when place the vinyl on it to cut. Use a sticky mat.

This will keep the material firmly in place.