Cut Lines From Vinyl To Edge For Easy Weed

Before you unload the vinyl from your machine take your weeding tool and try to weed a piece.

Cut lines from vinyl to edge for easy weed.

Cut with the carrier side down and the adhesive side up when working with heat transfer vinyl the shiny side of the material always goes face down for cutting. Some people prefer to add a weeding box around their image when they cut. Cut a box around each word or letter so that you can work on pulling up one section of vinyl at a time. Use a weeding box.

They then pull up the box around the image and continue to weed from there. I used to shy away from the pretty glitter and patterned vinyl because i always ripped my design when i was weeding it. Clean cut no jagged edges easy weeding for cricut silhouette sd all vinyl cutting machines finding well designed clean cutting fonts is no easy task. The extra cut lines help to separate the design from the material you want to save for future projects and makes it easier to find and weed your designs on the cutting mat.

To use the weeding feature select the object you want to add a weeding border and lines to and then choose weeding from under the effects menu. This will push the edges of the cut vinyl down into the liner making it more difficult to weed. After the design is cut it is time to weed the vinyl. The pro version of sure cuts a lot has a feature to add a weeding border and lines to help remove the excess vinyl from in between and around your design.

You will then need to increase your cutting pressure to correct this issue. Or after your design is machine cut you can take an x acto knife and hand cut weeding lines around your lettering. Weeding means to remove any of the vinyl that you don t want including any insides of the letters. If it comes up easily you re good to unload and continue weeding.

Those vinyls are gorgeous but it is impossible to see the cut lines. Using the cricut brightpad is by far the easiest way to weed vinyl that s either super sticky or hard to see like glitter vinyls or holographic vinyl. On the silhouette cut page scroll down to the cut settings. Speed 1 force 12 and passes 2.

Adjust your force with a test cut. If it is not necessarily pulling up the design but still difficult to weed you may have cut too deep. Load your vinyl into your cutting machine.