How To Load Pixscan Mat Into Cameo

I just purchased and received the new pixscan mat from silhouette to use in my cameo machine.

How to load pixscan mat into cameo.

When removing your material if it is paper or card stock flip the mat upside down and peel the mat off of the card stock to prevent the material from curling. Use any graphic any image or even your and load it to your silhouette studio software. Why calibrate my camera. Using a pixscan mat can be so advantageous but sometimes completing that camera calibration can be frustrating.

Learn how to use the silhouette pixscan mat with this tutorial. Make sure the arrow on the top of the mat is pointing into the machine. Camera calibration can be tricky and for unknown reasons. Using the silhouette pixscan mat.

Your machine will roll your mat into the cutting area. Click send to silhouette. Any material placed on the mat can be imported into silhouette studio via scanner or camera and then have cut lines assigned through tracing drawing tools or opening designs. Use the blue line on the left hand side of your machine as a guide to align your mat.

It is simple and easy to use and the possibilities are endless as to what kinds of creations you can make using the pixscan mat. Use the standard photo size not square. Place on your pixscan mat and take a photo with your phone or camera. Canning mason jar labels download the set i created here step one.

When loading the mat into your cameo the left edge of the mat should be aligned with the alignment marking on the far left of the machine. Print the labels and trim down to about an 8 10 size. We signed our names on the one hand. On the original cameo the marking is the same color as the base of the machine grey but it is blue on the cameo 2 and cameo 3.

Select load cut mat from the display. When loading a cutting mat into your silhouette align the mat with the white rollers. Now the rest of the steps are good old fashion craft skills for the most part. Cardstock or white stick paper.

I originally tried to photograph it and import it into the cameo software using the pixscan button located in the toolbar toward the top left actually third button in on the left but i soon realized that i needed to calibrate the camera i was.