Cutting Bigger Than The Mat

I absolutely love my silhouette cameo but a few months ago i was wanting to cut a custom piece that was larger than the standard 12 12 square cut mat.

Cutting bigger than the mat.

If either the height or width of an image is greater than 11 5 29 cm when you select make it you will receive an alert that one of your images is too large for a 12 x 12 30 5 cm x 30 5 cm mat. Tiling a large scale image with your cricut is actually pretty easy using the slice tool. Get a design you can scale up and prepare it for cutting. The maximum cutting area on a 12 x 12 30 5 cm x 30 5 cm mat is 11 5 x 11 5 29 cm x 29 cm.

If you want to make something larger than the large mat you can use a process known as tiling i ve seen people use this technique to make large car and wall decals big wood signs and enormous paper projects. Download my free flying unicorn files design 138 from my free resource library you can get a password for it by signing up at the bottom of this page. You can rotate it by selecting the design and then grabbing the green circle at the top of the design and pulling it 90 degrees. Click here to see the finished project.

First select the design and rotate it so it s going vertically. I recommend you cut these decals with a cutting machine like a cricut. For this larger than mat project you ll need some cardstock any size from 8 5 by 11 inches all the way up to 12 by 24 inches will work though the bigger the paper the less work for you. Weight doesn t matter a lot you can use 65 lb 80 lb or 110 lb though the heavier the cardstock the sturdier it will be.

If you are using a 12 inch by 24 inch cutting mat then the largest you can cut is 11 5 inches by 23 5 inches. Small mat cutting area is 4 25 inches x 6 25 inches. For this you need to look at the maximum cutting sizes for each of the three machines. If you are wanting to cut larger than these options then you simply must cut your design.

How to cut larger than mat vinyl wall decals step 1. The easiest way to do that is to make a square or rectangle in design space that is the size of the cutting area. Cricut joy maximum sizes. You will have the option to continue with a larger mat or return to the canvas to resize your image.

Have you ever wondered how to do that. This is where you need to make some changes to your settings so you can cut longer than the mat.