How To Cut Vinyl Into Sheets

Cut the vinyl from the top down to where it touches the floor.

How to cut vinyl into sheets. Place the sheet of adhesive vinyl on the cutting mat with the shiny gold side facing up then load the mat into the machine and press the start 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. Simple artwork like text is the easiest artwork to cut with a vinyl cutter. Then load the mat into your cricut machine by pressing the flashing load unload button.

Aside from simple fonts already in the windows or mac operating system you can purchase additional fonts or you can. Trim around outside corners or other protruding objects by making a vertical slice down the sheet. In fact one of my favorite vinyl projects that my kids and i did together was entirely cut by hand. 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.

Depending on the type of vinyl both the compression and rotary shear technology can be used as 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. Bring your artwork into a vinyl cutter. Once the design is cut push the arrow button to unload the mat.

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. Remove the vinyl from the mat leaving the cut design. Stick a piece of vinyl to your cutting mat making sure the paper backing side is down. 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.

Cut a piece of transfer tape close to the same size of the design and remove the paper backing. Using your cricut tools. Cricut and silhouette vinyl basics. You can always cut your vinyl by hand using a pair of scissors or craft knife.