Hi. I've used Cameo 4 for the first time today and couldn't get it to cut properly.

First thing that I've noticed is that the blade starts cutting a little above the vinyl (using a Walmart's Hello Hobby 12x24 mat). If I press the down arrow (adjustment keys) to make cameo pull the mat a little deeper. It won't cut at all, the blade just moved from one side to another once and stops. I let it be and tried to just lower my design in the software, but here comes another issue...

The autoblade does not adjust the depth properly. At first I used the recommended auto settings and it made a test cut (not aligned but that fine), with the second try it did not cut the vinyl at all so I tried to adjust the cut settings, however even if I set it to say 5, the red mark on the blade will only go up to 2 or stay at 0. Wil a few tried it switched to 10, even though I had it set to 4-5 in the software, and I had to reset it manually in order to get it to change from 10 to 0. Other time I had to move the blade housing all the way to the left for it to reset. It surely is inserted correctly and pushed all the way.

Not sure if the blade/housing should act like that but I've noticed that I can move the #1 blade housing up and down and it stays at that spot. If I push it all tye way down, I can make it tap it very slightly. Some of the times it does not tap at all, but seems locked all the way down. I couldn't find any videos where someone shows the blade manually moving up and down, also the tapping seen on youtube seems much more noticable.

Below are two videos, one showing the housing behavior (as mentioned, sometimes I am not able to do the tapping), second video showing the behavior when the mat is pushed just a little further.

https://imgur.com/a/QusEqDF

Hello! I just got my Cameo 5 and it comes with a 30x30 cm (12x12 inches) mat. I mostly need to work with A4 paper for my projects.

Will the A4 mat be compatible with Cameo 5 as well? Or will A4 papers still work with the standard 30x30 cm (12x12 inches) mat?

When I do a trace and send it, why do I get all these extra curve arcs everywhere? Can anyone help. This was only meant to be text.

Anybody got a recommendation for glossy sticker paper to use with sillhouette cutter?

UK based :) many thanks!

I have the adapter set. Bought a premium blade awhile back and needed to finally open it. It doesn't look like my other one, but looks like it would need an adapter. Which adapter does it need? Read somewhere it needs the grey one. Tried the grey one so far, doesn't fit properly.

was surprised to see chinese shops as first results in google

Has anyone had issues with using the craft blade settings where the job looks fine in the design space but adds a bunch of additional cut lines when going to send to cut? I was trying to make masks for my kid's bday party out of craft foam and ended up having to use the autoblade setting and doing several passes at 33 force to get it to cut. It took forever.

Ive had this machine for 3 years now and ive had so so many issues i paid a lot of money for it so i didn't throw it out. its ok for the odd cut for Vinyl or card but do not DO NOT try the print and cut you will waste your sticker paper and get frustrated no ends.
I watched video after video on how to fix calibrate etc and it just doesn't want to cut right i joined the shinny happy shillouette school women who is always happy with her machine "must be getting paid a lot to lie to folks"
If you wanting to print and cut save your money and buy a sisser juliet

I'm considering getting a cutting plotter for one main purpose: cutting chipboard jigsaw puzzles. The chipboard would be printable 2mm thick material and the jigsaws can be quite intricate.

I know a Cameo 4 can't do it, and a Cricut Maker 3 can but apparently the software is too simple and requires babysitting.

I was just wondering if: -Cameo 5 can do this reliably (intricate dense cuts in 2mm chipboard with zero tearing) -Can do it without eating through knife blades -Can do it without wrecking its own motion system and getting all messed up after a few cuts

I dont care much about how long it takes, just that it does a good job with no tearing and precise clean cuts.

I already own a pretty decent CO2 laser cutter but its not good enough for this job as the edges of the pieces are laser-burned (even if the cuts are perfectly clean) and also there is always a kerf which isnt good for jigsaws either.

I'm between spending the money in a blue laser head for my cutter which should minimise kerf and help with the edge quality or getting a cameo 5 or similar machine. I favor a plotting cutter if they are up to the task.

Hey,

I'm thinking about getting a cutting machine for years but never ordered one.

I think that the cameo 5 might be the best, but I was looking for some inspo on what you are using your's for, especially because I'm debating between the cameo 5 and the portrait 4 (125.- differences)... I'm pretty much asking you to convince me to get the cameo lol

I was also wondering what kind of accessories you think are the most important to get.

Thanks a lot

Hello just got my Vevor 375 but I experience this problem : the Z is never going up when moving. causing the tools to always stay down like you can see the nasty lines here. What could it be? When initializing it goes down correctly if on upper position.

Thanks in advance

Aloha Silhouette Ohana,

Just curious if anyone has gotten their hands on the new Cameo 5 Pro and would love hear their thoughts/experiences with it. I currently have 3 Cameo 4s and looking to get a larger size to add more versatility. Mahalos!

Realistically, I know that the price differential can’t be this big and that’s it’s probably a Black Friday tactic but is it still on discount from its real regular price?

I saw some videos of people feeding Oracal stencil vinyl directly into the machine via the roller but it looks like I’m ruining mine by doing so. I tried to use a light touch to load it but the roll was bending down into the machine and not feeding through. Thanks for any advice.

Heya! Does anyone else also experience this? Whenever I'm done printing on my sticker paper, it's glossy and relatively smooth on top, however, once I run it through my Silhouette Pro 4 for a die cut or kiss cut, there's a layer of graininess on top of my stickers and I can't easily wipe them away. They're sort of stuck on my finished pieces and it really takes away from having a smooth feeling.

Is there a way to troubleshoot this issue? My suspicion that it's just the excess paper material that has been cut away with the blade during the process. How do you deal with it though 😭

I'm torn between subscribing to a site such as Creative Fabrics or buying bundles like this one: https://svgmaster.store/

I'm a novice with Silhoutte and still trying to figure out different settings for different media but my main goal is to create for business. Eventually, I will be designing my own stuff but to test out the waters, I'm using premade designs. I'm going for very cute, kawaii style 🥰

What is your experience with different subscriptions? Have you bought bundles you can recommend and that are licensed for business use?

I'm curious if you use lbs or gsm for various tasks. I use gsm when setting up and saving cut settings. I also use gsm when shopping for cardstock. Obviously, one should use whatever works for them.

i want a shelf rack unit or something like those craft carts with two shelves, one for my cameo 3 and one for my canon ts6420a printer. i have very limited space in my room and on my work desk, so i like to keep things vertical as much as possible. the craft carts i see are always too small or too large. my cameo 3 is much longer in length than my printer.

im considering purchasing a small version of one of those garage storage rack shelves on amazon, but im not sure how the rattling will be while cutting, but it’s not a total dealbreaker.

if anyone has some recommendations please let me know!! or ideas!!

Hi Guys! I am looking into buying a cricut or silhouette or even a professional cutting machine for my small business. We are starting to offer stickers which is the main use but I also want it to be able to cut my bookmarks - I have bookmarks on heavy cardstock as well as linen paper and I know these tools use a sticky paper to keep it on the cutting board would that ruin the paper it is on? Also which tool do you think is best suited for both projects. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Letting everyone know since I didn't see it posted already: Silhouette's website seems to have some pretty strong sales running at the moment. Find them under the sale tab of the menu that runs near the top of the site. Here is the machines portion: https://www.silhouetteamerica.com/shop/black-friday-bundles

There are 3 significant groups:

Black Friday Machine Bundles: Machines bundled with tools/materials at below MSRP. Typical example is the Cameo 5 'card making bundle' that's $30 below machine MSRP, and includes Studio business edition, heat pens, and a bunch of materials.

Early Black Friday Deals: Mats and material bundles. Mats seem to be the deal here, as you get a light-regular-strong trio for about the price of one normal mat.

Seasonal Promos: Big deals on mint bundles (Cameo 4 Pro + Mint, anyone?) and materials. Vinyl bundles seem very well priced - specialty like metallic or glitter under $1/sf (Cricut in stores is typically $3/sf and goes BOGO type prices fairly regularly, sometimes a little less). Best price seems to be 9" rolls at under $.50/sf. HTV availabe too, but I'm not familiar with pricing for those.

Hello,

Our sports club is currently thinking about purchasing a cutting plotter for flocking/printing jersey sets and T-shirts.

As our budget is not particularly high, we are currently looking at the Vevor 720 (https://www.vevor.de/schneideplotter-c\_11151/vinyl-schneideplotter-720mm-vevor-signmaster-software-zubehoer-mit-halter-p\_010994528288).

I've watched a few videos about this cutting plotter and the results for large designs look very good in my opinion.

We would like to use flex film to print the T-shirts (we have currently chosen this one: https://plotterfolie.de/de/poli-flex-blockout-soft-flexfolie.html).

However, we are now wondering whether this cutting plotter is also able to cut out our logo in the dimensions 85mm x 74mm (HxW) cleanly, as this is absolutely essential for us.

This is our logo so you can get an idea of how much detail would be needed for our logo.

Has anyone here already had experience of this and can share their results with us (perhaps even in the form of pictures)?

Kind regards

Manuel

Hi everyone, I’m completely new to the silhouette world! I’ve been trying to get my cameo 5 to connect to studio or go for the past 3 hours! I had a really old cord that I tried hard connecting it to my computer, and it still wouldn’t connect! I dont know what I’m doing wrong. The blue light was flashing on the cameo, but nothing will pick it up! I’ve looked at so many different videos, and nothing is helping. I’m gonna go buy a new cord tomorrow, to try again but just seeing if anyone here had the same issue and knew how to fix it!

EDIT

Now the buttons at the bottom of the send panel in silhouette studio are gone!!

I do 3 pases on cardstock 100lb but i dont know why this happens, it moves slightly to the right but just on the bottom cuts, you can see the top cut did it perfectly

So basically, right now for my faux leather cutting for my projects (from thin flat faux leather sheets to very thick chunky glitter sheets) I have the options of 1. Hand cutting templates I need or 2. Asking my MIL to cut for me by sending her template docs and her coming over and getting the material to cut. She uses something else, don’t know if I am allowed to name other machines here.

Her machine CAN cut my chunky glitter sheets but it does not like them by any means. So basically I’d need the next model up from hers to use with potential ease. Well, I was told in their group about the sillhouette brand cutters and asked if I’d looked into them.

I guess my question is, are there specific models suggested for specific cutting/better models for heavier duty material? Any help and info would be awesome! Trying to look into potentially cheaper and definitely more efficient options and some people said they prefer these to the other large name cutters, but I know nothing of the models.

Hi emotional support group for Silhouette users.

I've just bought my first Silhouette machine, so a complete novice - however, the thing just doesn't seem to cut.

I have just one purpose, to cut fairly standard 220gsm card to make inserts for my business. So far, no matter what setting I choose, it doesn't cut. Sometimes I'll see a faint line, other times, it's like it hasn't touched the paper at all. Weirdly, it does fine with scoring.

What am I doing wrong? (and don't even get me started on the bluetooth dropping out in the middle of every single job!) Help much appreciated.