When you're ready, click on Cut Now and confirm! When the vinyl cutter has finished cutting, lift up the clamp lever and take out your vinyl sheet: we will show you how to clean up or "weed" your design in the next step. It's definitely an advanced feature for experienced designers and outside the scope of this tutorial - but at least you will know it's here when you need it!
Registration marks will create marks to help you line up vinyl layers on top of each other. Weed box will cut a box around your design so you don't have to struggle with the whole sheet when it's time to clean the excess vinyl. Very important if you're going to put up your sticker on the inside of a window, or for Heat Transfer Vinyl designs! Mirroring will flip your design horizontally. for Heat Transfer Vinyl, 75 Speed and 212 Force (you might also need a change of blade - check with your facilitators).įinally, click on the Cut icon and check if you need any of the following options:. for regular sticker vinyl, 50 Speed and 216 Force. On your vinyl cutter, change your Speed and Force settings by using the corresponding arrows. NOTE: Is testing time-consuming? Sure! But it's also the best way to make sure you won't waste material - not a huge deal when you are cutting basic sticker vinyl, but you will be pretty happy to know how to run these tests when you're using Heat Transfer Vinyl or more expensive specialty vinyl sheets. If you're getting any of these problems, then you need to adjust your vinyl cutter settings! Play with the speed and strength settings until you get a nice clean edge and an unscored carrier sheet. The blade cut through the vinyl and the carrier sheet. Your vinyl detaches with jagged edges. The blade barely cuts through the vinyl. Signs that your cutting settings are not correct: The carrier sheet hardly feels like it's been scored. Your vinyl comes off the carrier sheet very easily, without any jagged edges. The blade does a "kiss cut" that only went through the top layer of your vinyl. Signs that your cutting settings are correct: 
In the new Cutting window, click Cut Now and confirm. Nothing elaborate, we're just trying to see if your settings cut! Draw a small circle on your workspace - we usually like to make it about 10 millimeters or half an inch. Now that everything is set up, it's time to test your vinyl cutter settings and find out if they work for your material:
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