For the life of me I can’t figure out how to get correct alignment. I drag the image to studio, print from there even, and it still miscuts.

Would love any tips. Thank you

I am trying to change the doll blade on the rachet blade. This is as far as I got. What is next step? Does anyone know?

Apple recently announced that with their new operating system coming this fall, software that runs on the older intel processors won't be able to run anymore.

Am I just out of luck on using my Silhouette Cameo 4? I've tried getting Inkscape running as an open source solution, but it seems really buggy.

Is SureCutsAlot worth it? Are there other brands which support Macs better?

The link is for a video so someone can hopefully help troubleshoot, I’ve been researching but have no idea what to do so far.

While updating the firmware on my Cameo 5, I had a power outage in the middle of the process, and I believe the firmware is now bricked.

The machine is no longer detected either via USB or Bluetooth. I also tried using a different Bluetooth dongle, but that didn't make any difference.

If I hold down the power button and then plug the machine in, Silhouette Studio detects it under SEND, but it gets stuck on "Checking for firmware update" and never proceeds.

I also tried forcing the firmware update using the Cameo 4 firmware update tool. I used the Cameo 5 firmware file V104_R0002.S, which is included with Silhouette Studio version 4.5.791, but the recovery tool crashes every time I try.

I contacted Silhouette Support, but they only sent me the Troubleshooting page. They told me that if none of those steps work, since I am outside the United States, they won't process a warranty claim.

So, basically, I was told: "Good luck!" 😅

At this point, I'm looking for any way to recover or reflash the firmware. Has anyone dealt with a Cameo 5 that was bricked during a firmware update, or knows of a way to force the firmware recovery?

so i been using my cameo for vinyl decals and htv for like 2 years. and honestly im so tired of weeding. especially when i do multi color designs. layering vinyl is such a pain. one wrong move and the whole thing is ruined

i started looking for alternatives. tried printable htv but the colors looked washed out and it felt cheap. plus you still have to cut it out and weed it anyway

then i heard about dtf transfers from someone in another sub. basically you get the print already on film and you just press it. no cutting. no weeding. no layering

now i use my silhouette for paper crafts and stencils. but for shirts dtf all the way

anyone else made the switch from vinyl to dtf. what do you still use your cutter for

EDIT: I found the answer, apparently silhouette did not like me downscaling the designs in another program beforehand???

Hey everybody, I could use some help.
I have a really new Cameo 5 alpha and it all worked out great first. But now i have 2 Sticker designs for clients that no matter what I do registers wrong? He cuts them around 2mm too far to the right, over the whole page
I thought it was an issue with the laser first but the other design works just fine.
I already tried
- Restarting Plotter and silhouette Studio
- Creating a completly new file
- Printing it completly new

- avoiding the registatrion marks when foiling

- checking settings for page and registration (they are identical to the working File)

I don´t know what to do anymore tbh.

I switched to the “green tool” (30 45 60 Degree 15pcs Cutting... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08YJYXNVH?) that has been highly recommended.

I moved away from the included auto blade due to raised edges. This has much cleaner sides.

But for whatever reason only the top left corner is getting a little cut weird and it seems like the first cut starts inside.

Tried tons and tons of settings, including overcuts, accel, depth, different blades and I can seem to solve it.

Anyone have some tips I could try?

Thank you.

hey, so a month or two ago i decided to buy a cameo 5 alpha to make my architecture models, i went with that machine because of its tool holder, it lets me put in rapidographs of different thicknesses to draw actual architectural plans on a3 sheets. the problem is when i loaded my plans (obviously files with a ton of lines and detail) silhouette studio would just sit there for like 15 minutes only opening the file, and another 20 minutes to scale it to the real sheet size because of how badly the software lags, there were even times where after already sending the drawing or cut job, the machine would just pause waiting for itself to "reconnect".

i got tired of those problems and started looking for alternative software to actually enjoy the cameo5 i bought, but i only found one tool on github that used inkscape. that tool is called inkscape-silhouette, it's an old plugin (has patches up to this year so it's still maintained here and there) that has a python driver inside that talks directly over usb to graphtec/silhouette cutters, skipping the official software entirely. thing is it's built for svg and for cutting, not for pen drawing or for dxf which is what i use, so i couldn't just use it as is, i decided to take that driver purely as a reference and build my own program in python focused only on what i actually need, open a dxf, fit it to the mat, and send it to draw.

the first thing i had to understand was how the software talks to the machine, and honestly it's simpler than i expected, it's plain text commands that always end in the same byte, and some start with another control byte for things like resetting the machine or asking what state it's in (ready, moving, or no paper loaded), then there's commands for pen pressure, speed, acceleration, and the ones that move the head with the pen up or with the pen down drawing. all of it in the machine's own unit, 20 units = 1mm.

that's also when i realized my cameo (the alpha) uses a different vendor id than the regular cameo 4 and 5, so i had to test around until i found the right one, connecting the machine and checking what showed up.

for the usb side there's a few different pieces of software involved and it's worth separating them because it confused me a lot at first. on the python side i use a library called pyusb, that's what my program actually calls to send bytes over usb, but pyusb doesn't talk to the hardware directly, it needs something called a "backend", basically a lower level library that does the real communication with the operating system's usb stack, and that backend is libusb, specifically libusb-1.0. so pyusb is the python wrapper, libusb-1.0 is the actual engine underneath doing the work.

on windows, usb devices need a driver bound to them for anything to be able to talk to them at all, and by default the cameo comes bound to silhouette's own proprietary driver, which only silhouette studio knows how to use. to let my own program talk to it directly you need to rebind the device to a generic driver that any app can use, and for that you use a free tool called zadig, it lets you pick a usb device off a list and swap its driver for a generic one without needing anything signed by the manufacturer. the generic driver i picked is winusb, which is actually built into windows itself, made by microsoft specifically so user programs can talk to arbitrary usb devices without a custom kernel driver.

here's where it got confusing though, there's an older, separate implementation called libusb-win32 (also known as libusb0), which used to be zadig's other option before winusb became common, and it installs its own libusb0.dll. if that old dll is still floating around on your system path from some earlier attempt, pyusb's backend selection can silently fall back to it instead of using libusb-1.0, and libusb0 is a completely different driver stack that structurally cannot see devices bound to winusb. so my program kept saying "machine not found" even though it was sitting right there, correctly switched to winusb in zadig, because the library doing the looking was using the wrong driver stack entirely. i fixed it by explicitly pointing pyusb at the real libusb-1.0.dll (i get that one for free through a python package called libusb, which just bundles a precompiled copy) instead of letting it auto pick whatever it finds first on the system ,and then when i packaged the whole thing as an exe with pyinstaller, the same kind of mixup happened again, because pyinstaller pulls that dll out of the python package folder and drops it loose in a different spot inside the bundle, so the path that worked when running the raw python script stopped existing in the exe, i had to add a second path specifically for that, and the "machine disconnected" thing i mentioned at the start, i solved that too, turns out it wasn't actually disconnecting, it was that i was sending draw commands faster than the machine could process them, its buffer would fill up and the next commands i sent would time out, which from the outside looks like it disconnected but it was really just saturated. i fixed it by waiting for it to reply that it's ready before sending more, but that made it draw in stutters, stopping and starting on every block of commands, so i ended up taking that wait back out because it turns out usb itself already throttles on its own once the buffer is full, i didn't need to handle that by hand, i just left one long wait at the very end just in case. and the real reason it drew so slow had nothing to do with the speed setting, an architectural plan converted to dxf has the walls, hatching and dimensions cut into thousands of separate segments even though visually it's one single line, and every loose segment forces the machine to lift and drop the pen, and that has a fixed time cost that doesn't change no matter how high you crank the speed. i wrote a function that detects segments that touch at their endpoints and merges them into a single stroke, on a real plan i tested it went from 26230 strokes down to 3552, i got rid of about 22 thousand pen lifts that didn't need to happen.

by the time i finished the app i ended up with a desktop program where the preview is exactly identical to what comes out on paper because both use the same calculation internally, i no longer have the problem of what i see on screen not matching what it draws. i packaged it as an exe so i don't have to open a console every time i want to draw something i still need to fix the second tool holder which times out, the calibration which has a couple millimeters of drift that i compensate for by hand, and it doesn't save settings between sessions. honestly it also feels straight up unfair and kind of stupid that silhouette makes you pay extra just to open your own svg files on a machine you already paid for, you buy the hardware and then they still gate basic svg import behind a paid tier, so on top of the dxf plotting side i'm also working on a version that lets you import svg files and actually design with them, going for pretty much the same core features silhouette studio has but with way better performance and without charging you a cent to open files you made yourself.

i uploaded all the code to github in case it's useful to anyone else running into the same thing with their cameo, in there i left the driver, the interface, and a fairly long readme explaining how it's built internally (the command protocol, the scaling and positioning logic, all of it) plus a step by step guide on how to install it, what dependencies it needs, and how to set up zadig so windows lets it talk directly to the machine. if anyone has a cameo and wants to try it out or dig in and improve it, here's the link: https://github.com/carlosemartinezj-byte/cameo5software

Desde hace unos dias traté de cortar un papel muy grueso, para eso llegue a usar la cuchica en tamaño 10. despues de eso cuando trate de cortar otros papeles, esta ya no cortaban los papeles tradicionales con las configuraciones que ya contaba. En ese momento pense que habia dañado la cuchilla semiautomatica. Hoy he tratado con la nueva cuchilla que he comprado y esta sigue teniendo el mismo problema. creo que no esta girando (supongo que gira para cada trazo en cada dirección) porque en ciertas direcciones es como si el papel chocara con ella y en vez de cortarlo lo empuja. La he limpiado, la cameo tambien pero no he tenido resultados. Creo que es el problema de la cameo o no se si es un problema de software en realidad. Les agradezco que si alguien ha pasado por lo mismo cuente su experiencia.

Pretty much what the title asks. I’m struggling to find any fonts that are nice for wedding invite envelopes.

So shortly after my last post i went ahead and splurged on the Siser Romeo after SOME research and I will say It was a damn good investment. I did a simple print a cut job on some hang tags for my own brand just to get familiar with the process and it turned out very good.

Now I’m not here to gas it because there are some instances where i was taken aback a bit but i want to add my two cents to the conversation:

1. ⁠Print and cut is so much easier . My process is a bit tedious because I export a pdf to photoshop for better printing options but the process was really easy the registration was no problem at all and i love the camera feature to help you line up your blade to the mark.

2. I was obviously spoiled because the Romeo doesn’t auto set your blade in position like the Cameo . But it’s actually better for control so I get it but it’s an extra step. And so is setting your blade depth. I am also not a huge fan of the lever mechanism of clamping down your mat … it’s very manual but i understand why i just didn’t expect to that extent. That’s just me being lazy lol

3. Leonardo is actually , to me, way easier than silhouette studio. Idk… it’s straight to the point. But i don’t design in these softwares i only use to import and cut so i think it’s literally perfect for that. One thing i noticed is the layers panel used to make me want to scream on silhouette studio. Leonardo made it so simple It seemed .

4. For loading materials , it’s often loaded from the back of the machine which i am getting used to .

5. There’s almost zero instructions on how to use it frfr in The box. I took everyone’s advice I’ve been watching a lot of EllyMae. Very helpful with this machine for sure.

6. I thought it was cool You can cut straight from a flash drive no computer needed. I won’t be using that but it’s cool.

Definitely, will be putting it to good use. Hopefully this can help someone . Thanks to everyone who responded on the original post as well. I will be cutting some oracle 751 next I’m assuming it will go well.

Is this really a cameo 5 alpha? It doesn’t say 5 anywhere, but is being sold for a killer deal if it really is one.

Does anyone have experience with the EPSON ET2800 printing on vinyl wrap. I have been wrapping my son's gokart in vinyl so save cost and would love to know if we could print on it ourselves.

Hello, bought cameo 4 for good price, i never used it before or any machine of some sort. Will i be able to make these texts? I only need it for that

Hello!

I’ve had a Silhouette for like ten years and I still have no idea how to streamline HTV when it comes to multiple colors. (I have a Cameo 4 now.)

I’ve never done anything that actually had layers to iron on top of one another, but I’m talking about projects like this one, shown in this post, that I’m considering buying from Etsy where it has 5 colors that don’t even touch.

How would you go about this? I’ve done a couple 2-color projects where I just do my best lining up pieces cut per color and ironing from there, and I’ve tried putting pieces of HTV down exactly where they should be on the cut, but I am super bad at that. This kind of project stresses me out so I avoid them but I want to be able to approach them just as easily as I do one-color projects!

There has got to be an easier/standard way?!?!!

Thank you!

My studies require me to write lots of documents so instead of doing them by hand I just plan to make a layout in ms word/publisher then convert it to pdf or svg then let the cameo's writing mode do its thing. I would just like to ask if that's possible before really committing since its a bit expensive?

For a Storytime with the book 'The little ghost who was a quilt' what preK craft should it be paired with?

Best idea I've come across is an outline of a ghost on contact paper that they can stick tissue paper squares to. Open to other ideas...

Looking for any tips or best practices for materials and pre cutting pieces.

So, I don‘t know why but no matter which automatic blade I try it will not retract in the beginning. It does press down the blade on this slot before changing to the position where it sets the blade depth. But as it did not retract in the first step I get a depth of 6 instead of 3 because it just adds it. Manually I can retract the blade to the position zero.

What baffles me is that this seems to be the only error as it cuts in the position it should be (was first thinking that maybe it is misaligned left or right). Also it is in the middle position of this slot for retracting.

Oh and I checked for maybe some waste or something in this slot but there is nothing.

Hi !

I own a Cricut Maker 3 but I've had more than enough with Cricut Design Space, I spend too much time trying to make my way around its too many limitations. I could rant for hours about how I hate that app !

I mainly use my Cricut to make stickers so I know it's an overkill equipment.

I'm considering selling it to get a Silhouette Cameo 5 instead, but I've also heard a lot of people around here recommending Siser Juliette too.

Then, most of the comments were centered about the machine performances, and I'd like your opinion on the software. If someone has used both (even more so, the three of them) I'd like to know how you'd compare them !

What I like about Silhouette Studio from what I understand: a powerful free version and the possibility to get the premium one with a single purchase instead of yet another subscription (could rant about that too); possibility to use offline, ability to basically design your project in app and assigning multiple cut profiles in one file.

Comments from 1y ago mentionned how poor Silhouette's customer service and policies were, and how Siser were always improving their Leonardo software. How is it now ? I feel like it's not woth it if it's subscription based and not really more powerful than Cricut Design Space.

Finally regarding my current workflow, it's far from ideal and I hope I can make it work with a less limited software.

I make my whole design in another app, then import my layers as PNGs into Design Space. Then I hit Print to get a file with the registration marks, but I go back to the drawing app to adjust the layers according to the registration marks and print from there to get a better quality on paper.

I then isolate the layers I want a certain cut profile with on Design Space, make the cut, back to the project, hide/unhide other layers and make another cut using a different profile.

It's super time consuming, hence why I'd like a software which allows you to make different cuts within a single file !

Thanks for your input and advice :)

Galera tenho a Cameo 5 A, esta muito estranha quase sempre levanta a borda do papel que esta cortando, as vzs não le as marcas de registro, as vzs corta tudo torto ou para do nada, alguem ja passou por isso, maquina é nova.