I want to make die cut bookmarks, I'm using 80lb cardstock and 3mil sticky laminate. I bought a new manual blade 2mm. The total thickness of materials is less than 1mm. In theory, blade depth 3 at full force should be enough.. I think. I tried blade depth from 3-6, force 30-33, passes 1-3 and it will not cut all the way through clean. When I try to remove the design from the sheet it tears at the very bottom layer of the paper, leaving frayed paper. I also double checked my blade is inserted in the machine properly, the mat or sheet doesn't appear to be sliding or shifting. It's like it cuts all the way til the last sliver of paper on the bottom of the sheet Anyone have an suggestions?

So, I don’t actually know anything about this program, and I have no use for it.

I got an email from Silhouette America, stating, “Your Silhouette Studio account is now open.”
I didn’t make an account. I didn’t download any software by this name.

I installed the most recent NVIDIA update—could that have something to do with this situation?

Does anyone know what’s going on?

Thank you in advance.

EDIT: Thank you for the responses! :)

Hi all, I bought a Cameo 5 and just received it the other day. I'm finally setting it up and downloaded silhouette studio. However within a few seconds of opening the program and trying to connect the cutter, the program crashes. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the program twice and have restarted my laptop. My laptop is a brand new MacBook and with tons of space and ram so it shouldn't be the issue either.

Does anyone have any advice or help? Thank you!

Been using the Cameo 4 for my sticker business for years. I purchased the Cameo 5 for its improvements. I strictly do Die Cut stickers that I pre-laminate. The stickers sheets themselves are thicker than the usual flimsy brands even before lamination. I've always used this thicker brand. I remember with my Cameo 4, I would start at Blade 7, speed 10, force 25 with 2 Passes and get perfectly clean cuts every time for weeks on end.

When I started up the Cameo 5 - I was able to knock out nice stickers with the same Blade length, even faster speed (13), force 25 and this time, only ONE pass. I was ridiculously- happy that even 1 pass would produce perfect stickers. Made a few successful sets, then called it a night.

Now, one day later, and those same settings barely even made a kiss cut (aiming for a Die Cut as mentioned). I had to actually increase the blade to max (10), and go back to 2 passes as if this blade has been used for months. How is this possible on a new machine/autoblade? I even swapped out the Cameo 5 autolbade with the 4, just to see - and no difference.

The blade is seated correctly.
The mat is new
The blade area itself is clean of any rogue scraps.
I did the shut off/triple housing glide across the rails 3 times
Unplugged/reset.

Any ideas? Thank you (sorry it's a bit of a read).

Has anyone else gotten an email about this? It was from no-reply@silhouetteamerica.com. I haven't used my cutter in a minute, so if my account was down I didn't know anything about it. Just seemed really strange.

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Trying to get a name on a dress bag that's Shower curtain material. But Oracle 652 isn't sticking. Any suggestions? Or do I need to suck it up and do HTV with low heat? Has anyone done a shower curtain or similar?

Silhouette Studio is missing some really basic functionality, like copy&paste, so I was checking if there are alternatives and I found "Sure Cuts A Lot" which claims to work with my Portrait 3.

But I also read that apparently not all machine features work with it. Which are those? Setting blade depth/force? Registration marks?

Hi all, I downgraded my Silhouette Studio awhile back to 4.4.945, because some of the 4.5s that I tried were shifting the registration mark (the bottom left mark) a lot lower than before, unable to read my 8.5" x 11" paper. So decided to go back to the older version of 4.4.945.

My question is, has this issue been fixed? Although I can print/cut stickers with this old version, the Portrait 3 really has a hard time reading the registration marks without me flashing some LED lights on it, which is super time-consuming. FYI that I use Windows PC.

Any advice appreciated, thank you!

I am a very busy graduate student who only gets the opportunity to use my silhouette a few times a year. I was unaware there were problems until I opened my software to try to get ready for a crop at the end of this month. It is a nightmare. I cannot log on to my account at all, I cannot access my files and I cannot use my upgraded software I bought a license key for. I am extremely overwhelmed, especially as this will be the one of the few times I will have the opportunity to get away and scrapbook this year. Any advice or help would be appreciated.

So I have this weird thing going on where when I cut it's all slightly off. Less than an mm. The weird thing is that on the same sheet some are fine, some are up and left, some are slightly to the right.
I can't make any sense of it.
I'm using glossy vinyl. I tried better lighting, closing the lid, calibrating...

Even more strange: calibrating works fine on regular old copy paper. I thought maybe it was because it was glossy so I did the tape over the registration marks but the machine wouldn't read the registration marks. It read them better without the tape.
I tried thickening the registration marks too. No joy.
I'm at a total loss.
Could it be a blade issue? Maybe the paper sucks and is screwing up the cut alignment?
Thank you so much for your time. I'd appreciate any help.

hey y'all , just started making stickers at home. after a couple trial & errors i've found a good printable vinyl on amazon i like the quality of. my question is about laminating. after doing some research i see that laminating is best for longevity of the stickers & right now all i have is con-tact i bought from a craft store. i'm not really vibing with the cloudiness of the stickers after using it. i know oraguard is highly recommended but what would y'all suggest as second & third best options that won't give the stickers too much cloudiness/spottiness ? any opinions on Avery sheets ?

I have become frustrated with Cricut to the point of considering a switch to Silhouette, but I am concerned that I cannot achieve the same workflow I use in all my projects. My current Cricut workflow includes 2 PC's, a cutting machine and a printer. The only projects I make are print and cut. My workflow is as follows: On PC #1 I upload my print/cut images to Design Space and then print them out. I then take the print outs to PC #2 where the machine is actually connected to, add the printed image to the canvas and finish the cut portion. I use this workflow do to space limitations in the area that PC #1 is located. I've used this workflow without a hitch for a long time but have recently experienced some issues that have severely affected my business.

So my basic question is: Can I replicate this workflow using a Silhouette machine and Studio? What would that workflow look like?

Thank you so much in advance!

I'm trying to cut with the rotary blade in my new Cameo 4 for the first time, but when I hit send, it just says "preparing" and doesn't send the cut to the machine.

I've got the rotary blade in carriage 2, I twisted up the end to expose the blade, I selected the rotary settings in the Silhouette Studio send panel, and it says my Cameo is connected and ready... I don't know what else to do 😓

Can the Mint Studio access the Silhouette Studio library? Directly? Drag and drop?

Thanks

Hi,

I've just had a problem with a batch of stickers I printed. The design of the sticker is a simple yellow background with black text over the top. These came out looking great with a sharp line between the yellow and black. However I've just got back from a week long holiday and the stickers have developed a red border around the black text, I'm presuming where the yellow and black inks have mixed. They are printed using an inkjet printer onto Htvront printable gloss vinyl paper and then laminated with Avery self adhesive. The stickers were in a pile, and *all* stickers (the top one and ones beneath which were in darkness) have had this so I'm guessing it's not a light exposure issue.

I've included a before and after photo of the actual printed stickers (sorry for the heavily cropped photo but don't want clients branding showing!)

Anyone got any ideas why this happened, and how to avoid it in future?

Cheers!

Photo taken straight after printing

Photo taken 10 days later

As said in the title, I'm making stickers to be sold soon and my portrait 3 silhouette decided to cut 0.5 millimeter too far to the right.

For more details, the sheet to be cut is a printed self-adhesive sheet to which a holographic vinyl sheet has been applied. I tested several techniques to make the cut lines stand out better, and realized that they looked best when I hand-painted them identically onto the vinyl.

My problem: After several conclusive tests under the same conditions, the machine suddenly had difficulties and after three hours, it started to work normally again... only it was shifting its cutting 0.5 millimeters to the right (which in my case is very problematic).

I tried to recalibrate the machine, but there was no problem. I tried shifting the cutting lines 0.5 mm to the left, without success. I tried a lot of things for six hours yesterday and went through all the internet tutorials. I'm running out of patience, does anyone have any idea how I can get out of this situation?

I'm not going to express my complaints about my Cameo 3 because there's enough complaints already. I've had my machine since 2016 and I've definitely recovered my cost! But I am to my limit with the issues it's been having, thay are getting progressively more difficult to work around, and am considering a Siser cutter.

Who has switched from a Silhouette to a Siser and what has been your experience?

Does anyone have insight into how the design store site was designed? I'm a UX professional and can't tell where my search results should actually show up or why, depending on where I search, I get different results.

Hey hey. The past week or so my machine has been driving me nuts. I'm using vinyl sticker paper and a laminate. The left side of the page is cutting beautifully, but about halfway across the page the cuts become more shallow and isn't going all the way through. I've reset the blade housing. I've tried a new blade (cb09). I've made sure the blade is in all the way. I tried a new mat. I even went back to the autoblade.

Hellllllp. I'm so sick of having to hand trim half of my cuts!

I'm thinking of getting a second hand Silhouette Portrait 2. It doesn't seem to come with any software. For my laser I use Lightburn, what's the equivalent in the vinyl cutter world? My workshop doesn't have internet, so nothing that works online please.

I had Curio on my wishlist for a while now, found out Curio 2 and Cameo 5 came out in the meantime

They seem to be able to emboss things but I couldn't find any information on debossing like the original one could

Is there a maxhine that can do i want a Curio vut I'm afraid I'll end up buying an outdated machine with no support

I just got a portable storage drive for my laptop and am moving all my silhouette files over. Since I am still fairly new, I don't have a ton. I'd like to figure out the best way to keep things orgnized now, so in the future I don't have myself when looking for papers/clip art/etc. I'd ideally like to start it now instead of having so much it is a lost cause.

How to do you store your stuff? Collection/Theme, or all clip art together, or some other way?

Don't get me wrong, I love my silhouette machines and the silhouette studio software... but I can't help but notice the huge reduction of products retail stores. And, the new site for Silhouette design store is complete and utter trash. I'm not on any social media, other than Reddit, so I'm not sure what the company has out there about their products on other platforms.

So, is the company doing okay?

Today I turned on my Cameo 3 to find that the screen had rainbow lines through it so I'm assuming it was dropped or damaged in my last move. The touch screen still works b/c I am able to Load a mat, even though I cannot see the load button, because I know where it is on the screen. However, I recently factory reset my Mac so I need to reconnect the machine to my Mac and cannot see the screen when I hit the settings button. Has anyone successfully replaced their display? I'm hoping all is not lost and that I have to get a whole new machine. I would also love it if someone could do a little video of the buttons to select to connect the bluetooth so I can see if that will still work without replacing the display.