How To Set Up Cameo Silhouette 3

If you lot follow me on Facebook, you may have seen that I just got a new Silhouette CAMEO 3 (cheers Expressions Vinyl), and and so today I wanted to walk you through the process of how to gear up a Silhouette CAMEO iii and so that you lot tin can easily set yours up too! You can check out all of my fun and easy Vinyl Projects Hither for some great inspiration and and so come up back hither to larn how to fix up your Silhouette CAMEO and get started on your projects!

A big thank y'all to Expressions Vinyl for sending this Silhouette CAMEO 3 my way! All opinions and thoughts are mine.

If you just got a new Silhouette CAMEO, I am sure you tin can't wait to open up it upwards and get designing! Follow my pace-by-step instructions below and you will be up and running in no time.

How to Set Upward a Silhouette CAMEO 3

Purchase your ain Silhouette CAMEO 3 HERE!

STEP 1 : Open your Silhouette CAMEO three box up

Open that box up! Come on, you know you lot desire to. But open it upwards. And have everything out. We will go through what everything is for in a minute.

Pace 2 : Let'south Cheque Out What'south In The Box

Permit's become through what everything is in your box. Here goes:

Silhouette CAMEO 3

Here it is! Your big beautiful CAMEO three! Pull information technology out and gear up information technology to the side.

12" Cutting Mat

You volition apply your cut mat when y'all cut cardstock. You tin use information technology when you lot cut vinyl, but you don't need to.

AutoBlade

This is a HUGE selling betoken of the CAMEO three! The Autoblade!

Yous don't need to accommodate your blade manually anymore! Woot woot! You volition set your blade setting in the Silhouette Software program and then the CAMEO 3 volition automatically adapt it for yous. This is exclusive to the CAMEO 3 and a pretty amazing characteristic if yous inquire me!

Crosscutter

This allows y'all to cutting the vinyl off the roll at the back of the Silhouette! So super absurd!

Power Cable

Plug the 2 pieces together, into your auto and then into the wall!

USB Cable

This is to connect your car to your figurer. (Note: I connected mine this way, only my Silhouette CAMEO 3 besides has Bluetooth so I do not need to go on to keep information technology in if I set up the Bluetooth. So super cool!

Silhouette Studio Software (Download)

Yup, your buy comes with a free Silhouette Studio Software download. I already had this, so I did not need to download it (although I did demand to update it).

This is the program on your computer where y'all volition pattern and then send to cut to your Silhouette. Information technology is such a swell plan with then many means to customize your designs...it is the best!

Besides, your Silhouette volition come with free designs that should automatically download once you get your programme running and caput to the library / files section.

Paperwork / Registration

You will desire to register your CAMEO, and then be sure to exercise that correct away. Also if you bought your CAMEO from Expressions Vinyl, you will receive a limited extended warranty for as long as yous own the motorcar.

Other Tool that comes with your Silhouette CAMEO 3

I can't seem to observe an official name for this tool, it doesn't even mention that it comes with this tool on the Silhouette site. Just merely considering it doesn't accept a proper name, or a specificed purpose, doesn't hateful it is important! Let's talk near what it can do.

It can assistance you have the end cap off of the Autoblade if yous need to clean the fibers out of it. Be sure the blade is set to goose egg, then use the smooth circle to twist the end cap off.
If you are using a ratchet blade, the other non-smooth-circle is meant to assist you change the setting on information technology.
And the pointy ends? Those can aid you remove the Bluetooth dongle should you need to take that out for any reason.

Yup, so that tiny tool is really actually important. To make sure I keep information technology safe, I am going to put it in my front crosscutter storage compartment.

Stride 3 : Let's Become Going

Plug the 2 pieces of the power cord together, then plug information technology into the wall and into your Silhouette.

Plus the USB cable into your Silhouette (using the square-ish end, non the USB end) and so plug the USB end into your calculator.

Download the Silhouette Studio Software program from HERE.

STEP four : Plough it on

On the side where you plugged the ability cord and the USB cablevision, there is an on/off push. Press that to turn the machine on!

The screen volition light up and have a few questions for you to answer. I enabled help icons and I did take a few minutes to become through the tutorials and I recollect that is of import to do!

STEP five : Silhouette Studio

Past at present your Silhouette Studio Software plan should be loaded onto your computer, and your computer should recognize your new device plugged into it! Woot woot!

It's time to open your Silhouette Studio and test things out! I won't go into particular on how to do this today, merely the latest version of Silhouette Studio has a lot of not bad tutorials when y'all first open it up!

STEP 6 : A Few More than Items

A few more items that are of import to annotation about your brand new Silhouette CAMEO 3:

Your Autoblade should only exist placed in the blade holder with the RED dot. Pull the lever open, line the ii groves up in the back, slide it in all the way, and so push the lever closed.
The blue dotted slot tin can assist any number of devices! Just imagine, being able to cut and draw at the same fourth dimension! Woot woot!
The Autoblade will Automatically adapt to the desired settings within the Silhouette Studio programme, but if you demand or want to adjust it manually, there is a spot to fix information technology in on the auto. But push it down until you've reached the desired setting.
If you choose to cut without a cutting mat, yous will demand to move the rollers in. Lift the lever on the right side to bring the roller up, then squeeze and twist the white roller until it moves from the locked to the unlocked position. Move the roller to the desired spot, and then twist to lock it. Be sure that the lock is fully secured in place earlier locking the lever again.
On the dorsum of the machine is a spot for your crosscutter to exist used! I love that I tin can cut vinyl off the curl after I cut it!
At that place is an crawly storage compartment for additional blades and other goodies on the left side.
Backside the blade is another storage place that is great for pens, blades, extra tools, or anything else that will fit in that location.
And there is an fifty-fifty More crawly storage compartment for Silhouette tools and the crosscutter in a hidden pull-out compartment below the front end of the Silhouette. You lot can likewise flip upwardly the tracks to requite extra support to your vinyl or cutting mat. I tin't even get over how cool this is!