How To Change Cutting Mat Size On Silhouette

You ll notice that your design area will open by default with a 12x12 virtual cutting mat and work area.

How to change cutting mat size on silhouette.

On the page setup panel choose the media size of the paper in this case a 12 x 12 media size. Open a new design mat. Open up the design you want to cut in the silhouette studio work area. Then click on scale options.

Now you can create your own name for the custom media page size. Remember this is the size of the material you are cutting not the size of the mat you are cutting on. Cutting mats are printed with a 1 inch grid pattern to help you position and align your material. Untitled create an obvious name for your new mat size.

Learn the basics of your silhouette cameo. The first thing you want to do is open silhouette studio. This tutorial was created by shannon le an admin of the silhouette cameo fun project inspiration facebook group. Be sure that you select the mat you are using from the page setup panel before beginning your project.

Under cutting mat change the cutting mat to cameo 12 x 24 in f. Under page size change the height to 24 000 e. This video gives an overview of how the silhouette cameo cutting mat is set up and how to use it. Silhouette cutting mats are available in several sizes.

In silhouette studio v4. Click add media size. In the page setup panel you can see the page size is set to automatic cameo and the cutting mat is the 12x12. Check the box next to show print border show cut border.

With the silhouette studio open create the needed square or rectangle shape. The gray outline that shows up on the design mat is the print border. Subscribe to. We are using a cameo 12 inch by 12 inch mat and letter sized paper.

Where it says title. The mat sizes are in the cutting mat window. Go to object and click on transform. Now let s make it an exact size.

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