What Side Do You Cut On Ht Vinyl

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What side do you cut on ht vinyl. Click the send button along the top tool bar. Send your design to cut. When it s finished cutting you will need to weed away the excess vinyl just like you do for adhesive. Now you re ready to make your first vinyl cut.

If you can get your tool under a layer of vinyl and pull it back then that s the side you should be cutting. You do not need to mirror your vinyl you can cut it as is. If you have a cricut maker you ll set the material in that screen. Pick a side of the sheet that you suspect might be the cut side e g the white side of the sheet of red htv.

Here is a picture of a blue htv this is the shiny. For iron on however you want to mirror your design. This will open the send panel. For this silhouette cameo project we want to pick vinyl matte if you re working with oracal 631 or vinyl glossy if you re working with the more popular oracal 651.

Now that our file is ready to cut let s look at the heat transfer vinyl more. Htv has a clear plastic carrier sheet that covers the top of the vinyl and the other side is where the heat sensitive adhesive is it is not sticky or tacky to the touch. The reason that you need to mirror your design when working with heat transfer or iron on vinyl you cut the design on the back side of the vinyl. The carrier sheet is sticky and holds the vinyl in place while you cut.

From here select your material if you have a cricut explore you ll set the material with the dial. Siser with its history of excellence untiring research and infinite curiosity has brought you this far. Now you are ready to cut and can click make it. Go to your cut settings window and double check that you are set to cut with heat transfer vinyl smooth.

To the guarantee of the very top quality reached thanks to 40 years of innovation and experience. Now before you cut from your pattern you can adjust where you want your image on the mat in case you want a specific part of the pattern. Just toggle the mirror button on the left hand side to do this. If you don t see this go back and try the attach option again.

You have purchased htv heat transfer vinyl and now you are not sure which side to cut well let us help. Mostly you will read that you cut the htv with the shiny side facing down. Take your weeding tool and scrape dig in the corner of the sheet. For the plaid we just cut in the top corner.

After clicking continue you ll be taken to the make screen. Sometimes that is pretty easy to determine and sometimes it may not be so easy. You should see your design on the mat with everything where it should be.