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Cut Doctor: Lesson 19 — When your cut starts well but then the machine goes crazy

February 12, 2019 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

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Yes, I believe you! Sometimes it seems that your Silhouette machine is possessed. It starts great, then for some unknown reason seems to go completely crazy. It starts fine but then cuts in the wrong place, goes way too slowly, the blade doesn't go … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Machines, Print and Cut Tagged With: blade, bluetooth, calibration, cut doctor, cut settings, machine, packet size, pauses, Print and Cut, registration marks, slow, speed, Text, usb

Cut Doctor: Lesson 6 — Speed

November 14, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

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Today's visit with the Cut Doctor will be a quick one. That's because we're discussing Speed -- how fast or slow your Silhouette machine moves as it cuts your design. There's not too much go over here, but it's very important. There are some big … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting Tagged With: cut doctor, cut settings, machine pausing, slow, speed, thickness

Cutting Checklist

September 14, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

This post is part of my Checklists series. Each post in the series is a set of brief reminders to help you remember the sequence of steps to use as you work on a project. With each checklist, I provide links to more information about the topics. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Tips Tagged With: action, advance cut mode, blade, checklist, color, cut, cut style, cutting, Fill, force, line, line segment overcut, mat, material, passes, pause, resume, settings, simple cut mode, speed

Successful Beginner Projects: #8 Snowflake decal with vinyl layering

February 9, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

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In today’s beginner project, I want to teach you about simple vinyl layering and show you a new application technique. (To start with project #1 in this series, go here. Each project builds on the information in previous projects, so if you don’t do … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Projects Tagged With: beginner, cut settings, hinge, speed, transfer, vinyl, vinyl layering, weed, weeding

Software Basics (version 4) — Lesson 14: Making your first cut

October 2, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Today is the day! If you’ve gone through all the Before You Begin and Software Basics lessons up to this point, you will be well-prepared to make your first cut. If you haven’t, I highly recommend checking out all those lesson for my best beginner … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Machines, Silhouette Studio Software, Tools and Accessories Tagged With: action, blade, cut, cut edge, cut settings, deep cut blade, fabric blade, force, line segment overcut, mat, material, no cut, premium blade, software basics, speed, tool, tool 1, tool 2

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