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By Silhouette Jan 01, If your Silhouette makes noise while cutting, it is probably normal. If this was not previously removed, this would be the cause of the excessive noise. Remove the tape and power the Silhouette unit back on.
Otherwise, know that the Silhouette is unfortunately not a whisper-quiet unit. The sounds are likely normal. If when your Silhouette is powered on, it immediately begins to go through cutting motions starts to cut the same job repeatedly or the blade taps up and down rapidly prior to you sending a cut job, another device is trying to communicate with your machine.
The issue stops if the USB cord is removed, but is repeated without stopping if the unit is powered on and the USB cord is connected to the computer.
This indicates that there is another USB device such as a printer that is trying to communicate with the Silhouette. For example, if your Silhouette was cutting a series of circles, pressing the Pause button would not stop the cutting action until the Silhouette stopped cutting the circle it was working on when the button was pressed.
It would then stop and not move to complete further circles. The only immediate method to stop a cut job would be to power off the Silhouette completely. This will abandon the job rather than pause it. If you power off the Silhouette to stop the job, please note that the job cannot be resumed where it left off. If the cutting process pauses for prolonged periods of time up to several minutes at a time and the power light flashes, your machine is overwhelmed by the amount of data being sent.
This is most common with the Original Silhouette. This has nothing to do with the processing speed or ability of your computer, but rather the Silhouette machine itself. The power light flashing indicates that the Silhouette is on standby and will resume cutting after a few moments. To resolve the concern, remove any additional content that may appear outside of the cutting area and try to cut the job again.
Alternately, a brand new document can be started and any content that appears in the cutting area can be copied from the original document and copied into the new document.
Make sure to only copy and paste the content that is actually placed inside the cutting area. If this does not resolve the concern and the Original Silhouette model is in use, slow down the cutting Speed setting to 3 or lower.
Slowing the speed will resolve the issue by sending a slower data stream. The Silhouette should no longer stop in the middle of the job. This only needs to be performed for jobs where your Silhouette appears to stop and goes on standby the power light flashes in the middle of the job.
If the opening of the blade is obstructed with built up materials and your cuts do not fully cut through, it is time to clean your blade. During the cutting process, some materials that are fibrous in nature such as paper and cardstock may collect fiber strands or pulp as the blade cuts through them.
This can build up over time. Grip the tip of the blade and unscrew it. Gently clean out any debris that has built up by blowing.
When you are finished, screw the tip back into place. You should never cut with the tip removed. If using the Passes feature found in the Send panel and the secondary cutting pass is not aligned with the initial cut, the material you are cutting is somehow slipping. You should use the Passes feature when you are using a thicker material type. If your cutting mat or material is moved in and out through your Silhouette, but the motor does not move side-to-side during cutting, the following could be your concern:.
Ensure that the original USB cord is in use. Try this! If none of the above solve your problem, you can try adding either more cut Passes Double Pass in older versions or a Line Segment Overcut.
The Test Cut is found at the bottom of the Send panel. The Test Cut will cut where your blade is positioned, usually at the top left-hand corner. Use the blade position arrows to move the blade into a different position over your material to cut a Test Cut wherever it fits best. When finding the correct settings to produce a clean cut, there are two things to take into consideration:. If you feel your material may be slightly deeper than the recommended blade setting recommendation, we would recommend that as you raise the blade level, you also in turn lower the Force setting Thickness in older versions in the software so that the blade if overexposed is not still being pressed down with the hardest force possible and potentially harming the tip.
You may then gradually increase the Force according to further test results. The key to successful cutting results is to find the lowest blade setting and force setting combination where the Silhouette is still able to cut your material successfully.
For example, if a specific material is able to be cut with a blade setting of 3 or 4, you should opt to go with the lower setting that is still allowing you to have a clean final cut. Likewise, if the Force setting works at 28, it would likely also work at However, the lower setting should be selected to avoid over-exerting the blade beyond what is necessary to achieve a clean successful cut. Cut Settings also includes a Speed level. The speed is generally only necessary to adjust for specific materials that may require the blade to move at slower speeds around corners or intricate detailed parts of the image.
Use faster levels to make the overall cutting process faster. If your Test Cut works but you find there are areas not getting a clean cut on denser materials, you may wish to slow down the Speed and increase the number of Passes Double Pass in older versions. This will have the Silhouette cut your image twice or more, ensuring any problem areas are given an extra pass during the cut job.
If your Silhouette stops cutting after it has started prior to fully completing the job and reports that the job is complete, or if your Silhouette cuts a stray line through the middle of the job generally a diagonal line , then the issue probably that a larger packet of information is being pushed from the computer to your Silhouette. The Silhouette is not able to handle the larger stream of information.
As such, the Silhouette abandons the job or cuts a stray line since it cannot properly assess the information being received. Less commonly, this issue can be caused by the presence of a small bit of un-removed blue packing tape found on the black motor case where the blade is seated. This tape covers certain sensors on the unit that confuses the Silhouette and makes it think the job is completed when it is not.
Under and to the left of the blade, if you find a small piece of translucent blue tape that was not initially removed, please remove this tape and discard it. If vertical gaps or stripes of uncut portions appear down the length of the page, your blade is not fully seated and is bumping against the rubber stoppers or white pinch rollers during operation.
If your Silhouette goes through and completes the entire cutting process, but part of the image appears to be uncut not ragged or torn, but simply not cut at all while others are cut properly, it could be one of the following:. If your cut design is not lining up properly or your image appears to be skewed and mis-aligned during the cutting process, then the cutting mat or material if no mat is in use is drifting or moving off the rollers.
If your material is on a cutting mat and appears to be drifting or moving around on the mat even though the mat itself is securely in place try the following:. If your material and cutting mat both appear to be gripped properly, but the resulting cut is simply not aligning properly, try the following:.
Registration marks may not work on textured surfaces, such as textured cardstock, or other select cardstock materials. Silhouette cannot guarantee that registration marks will work on all materials. This is rarely the case. Calibration should rarely be necessary. If your Silhouette has been powered off in the middle of a cutting job and the cutting mat remains stuck after the Silhouette is powered back on, do the following:.
The liner should be replaced when you are not using the mat to keep it sticky. If the cutting mat is too sticky, check what material type you are using. While many materials can be used with the Silhouette, some materials may not perform as well and may rip or tear when you attempt to remove it from the cutting mat. This can allow the adhesive to become less aggressively sticky.
However, even as such, some materials may simply be too delicate such as tissue paper or newspaper. Such material types simply cannot be cut successfully since they cannot be held in place properly by the cutting mat and then successfully removed.
Also, we highly recommend our Silhouette Spatula tool. This tool can aid in the removal of certain more delicate materials and cutout items from the mat. It should load your cut mat to the correct placement to start cutting your material.
If your blade is cutting through your material and into your mat, you might need to adjust your Cut Settings. If you are using the recommended cut settings, then you are probably fine. But, if you adjusted them yourself, lower your settings so you still get a clean cut through your material, but you are not damaging your mat.
If your cutting mat is drifting during the cutting operation and is not held in place properly by both of the white pinch rollers, the concern usually caused by one of the of the following:. Please note that the Cameo is the only machine with adjustable rollers. Do not move the rollers on the Portrait! This could break your machine. If the image in question was obtained from the Design Store, attempt to right-click and Ungroup the image.
If attempts to cut are successful from that point, please report the image ID back to support silhouetteamerica. While there appears to be an object on screen to print, there is actually no print information present in the file.
Cut lines and print information are handled differently. If a font name appears in the Fonts section of the Library as a blank image noting the font name, but has no preview to show the actual font style image, the font was not properly installed. The following steps may be taken to resolve this concern:. This process will only work for fonts downloaded from the Silhouette Design Store.
If the font was obtained from another source, it should not be installed into the Fonts section of the Library. Other fonts may simply be installed into the Fonts directory of the computer and then reopen the software. Please update or re-install the PDF reader for your computer. If you are unsure of what PDF reader you have or how to re-install the latest version, a good candidate program for viewing PDF files is the free Adobe Reader program.
If you use all of your credits in a given month, you can still purchase additional designs at the regular rate. For Deluxe, Premium and Diamond subscriptions, you can buy additional designs at a discount. If you click on your text and you can no longer edit it as text, you have turned your text into an object.
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