Cutting Bigger Than The Mat

Cricut joy maximum sizes.

Cutting bigger than the mat.

You can rotate it by selecting the design and then grabbing the green circle at the top of the design and pulling it 90 degrees. If either the height or width of an image is greater than 11 5 29 cm when you select make it you will receive an alert that one of your images is too large for a 12 x 12 30 5 cm x 30 5 cm mat. You will have the option to continue with a larger mat or return to the canvas to resize your image. Small mat cutting area is 4 25 inches x 6 25 inches.

Have you ever wondered how to do that. I ve seen tons of extra large vinyl cutouts floating around on pinterest and i ve always thought gee i bet i could do that with my cameo. I recommend you cut these decals with a cutting machine like a cricut. If you are using a 12 inch by 24 inch cutting mat then the largest you can cut is 11 5 inches by 23 5 inches.

The easiest way to do that is to make a square or rectangle in design space that is the size of the cutting area. I absolutely love my silhouette cameo but a few months ago i was wanting to cut a custom piece that was larger than the standard 12 12 square cut mat. For this you need to look at the maximum cutting sizes for each of the three machines. If you want to make something larger than the large mat you can use a process known as tiling i ve seen people use this technique to make large car and wall decals big wood signs and enormous paper projects.

What size projects are larger than the mat. Tiling a large scale image with your cricut is actually pretty easy using the slice tool. Click here to see the finished project. The maximum cutting area on a 12 x 12 30 5 cm x 30 5 cm mat is 11 5 x 11 5 29 cm x 29 cm.

Get a design you can scale up and prepare it for cutting. This is where you need to make some changes to your settings so you can cut longer than the mat. For this larger than mat project you ll need some cardstock any size from 8 5 by 11 inches all the way up to 12 by 24 inches will work though the bigger the paper the less work for you. How to cut larger than mat vinyl wall decals step 1.

First select the design and rotate it so it s going vertically. If you are wanting to cut larger than these options then you simply must cut your design.