Silhouette SILHOUETTE-CAMEO-3-4T Wireless Cutting Machine - AutoBlade - Dual Carriage - Studio Software

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I am extremely disappointed in this product. I have had no less than three Cricuts, I also have had the original Silhouette Cameo since 2011, I have also subscribed to the 150 designs a month /annual design store subscription since 2011. I have over 20,000 designs and have used the Cameo 1 extensively, so I am very familiar with these machines. I bought the Cameo 3 last month because it is supposed to have Bluetooth capabilities. Unfortunately it doesnt. I attempted to set up Bluetooth and worked on getting it set up for three hours. I rebooted both my computer and the machine several times. I Googled troubleshooting the issue and there are pages and pages of people discussing the Bluetooth issue that goes back at least a year. I was never able to get this function to work. I am so unhappy with the product. I was able to use the machine when I plugged in the USB cord but even then the machine would start a cut and then stop halfway through and never start up. I can no longer recommend this product to others.

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I cant even begin to tell you the array of vinyl decals and t shirts I have already made with this product. Lives up to the hype, I am pleased with this cutter. Rollers can handle 12" or 15" vinyl sheets or rolls. If youre on the fence, take my word, pull the trigger, you wont be disappointed. Software is fantastic, I can literally take any image from the internet trace with the tracing function in the software and cut in a matter of minutes.

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I LOVE THIS MACHINE! I had a very negative experience with the CriCut Explore 2 and this machine literally did everything that the CriCut machine COULD NOT. I purchased this for the main purpose of creating professional quality glossy white vinyl decal stickers featuring my own artwork and the Cricut machines "Print and Cut" features only work on matte papers and matte vinyl. Not so with the Silhouette! The Cricut machine and online design studio only allow for a cut area of 6 inches by 9 inches! Now, if youre buying expensive sticker paper or vinyl it probably comes in 8.5x11" and everything outside 6"x9" is waste. I have NO idea why this is, since the machine can accommodate a 12"x12" mat just fine. The Silhouette easily allows you to fill and cut a full 8.5x11 sheet. Another huge con with Cricut machine is that it constantly loses connection to the design studio- both while using bluetooth and USB connection. I have to refresh, disconnect, turn off, restart over and over to get it to see the connection again. The Silhouette again, does not have this issue. The Cricut machine also cant cut without THE INTERNET. Now, if you have a spotty connection like I do, this is SO aggravating especially on top of the connectivity issues it already has, as mentioned above. You can only cut from the Cricut ONLINE design center and you cant do it offline or by simply just downloading software. Again, Silhouette Cameo wins here! The Silhouette Studio is super user friendly (especially if youre familiar with Photoshop) and easy to design and use. To sum up, I LOVE this little machine and would highly recommend it. Stay far away from Cricut machines- at least until the address the aforementioned issues! Good luck! Happy Cutting!

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I have the first silhouette machine, which is still working great and I still use it. I purchased the Cameo 3 about two months ago and I love everything about this machine. The selling point for me was the blue tooth and the auto blade. I use it to make stencils for wood projects, for iron on transfers, among many other craft projects. The designs you can make with this is endless. I work at a school and a teacher there purchased one just for her classroom.

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Lots of steps to accomplish a simple task of just cutting paper. Not iser friendly for explanation and instruction o How to use the features. Not compatible with other fonts forcing to biy the silhouette product. You tube will be your friend.

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I previously owned the original Silhouette cameo I used it to run my sign business and used it a TON it had some glitches like cutting off track and not cutting properly but usually I could change up how I was trying to cut the design and it would work. unfortunately it completely died and stopped cutting correctly all together after using it for 3 years. Naturally I upgraded to the Cameo 3 which had some features I was excited about unfortunately it doesnt work well at all and the issues I had with the original cameo pale in comparison to the absolute headache this machine is. It will NOT connect to my computer which is a HP (Ive seen reviews that MAC users have lots of issues) it just says "paused" when ever I send a project to the machine and then never cuts. So I have to save everything to an SD card and cut directly on the machine without hooking it to my computer super frustrating since I often need to make a tiny change or adjustment to a design and have to save and unload and re load it to an SD card. Additionally on top of that Bluetooth will not work at all. Lastly it picks and chooses what it will and wont cut. I tried a design and it cut a portion of it but the words in a different font, but when I tried to cut words written in the "Arial" font which is the DEFAULT font for this machine, it would not cut it just cut a bunch of randomness. I tried EVERYTHING to get it to cut and it wouldnt cut right. Basically this new model is a complete and utter piece of garbage do not waste your time or money! I am now a blogger and no longer run my sign shop, but share many of my project tutorials on YouTube which include clips of the machine with links to purchase this product. I can no longer in good faith promote a company who is putting out such terrible equipment .I will be making the switch to another brand in the very near future.

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I have cricut, gazelle and now cameo 3-4T, I have also had a Robo, out of all of them my new favorite is the cameo. Super fun to use, quiet, works with SCAL , My favorite software is the SCAL so I was super excited when I hooked up my machine and found it is compatible with Scal, I didnt see that in any of the reviews I had read. The only complaint I have at all is the set up. Your free images are suppose to load when you hook up machine, I installed and uninstalled software 3 times. I followed the instructions of unplugging and reset, still no luck. I then decided to test my cutter and see if my computer and machine were responding together. As soon as I hit send to machine to cut the images loaded. Would of saved a lot of time if this was in the instructions.

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I use to own the silhouette portrait and although I experienced a few difficulties they were never as bad as the experience Im having with the Cameo 3. The bluetooth is erratic, the blade doesnt always adjust to cutting settings, the bar that is meant to hold down the mat and paper doesnt hold tight. It takes an hour for support to answer their calls. At this point I assume its because there are too many customers having similar problems Overall I have wasted more time with this machine than it is worth!

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Way back when I couldnt afford the lump sum for a Silhouette, so I bought a Pazzle which I could make payments on. I never totally unstood how to set the blade on the Pazzle. When I saw the Silhouette Cameo 3 on Amazon at such a reasonable price, I moved money around until I could buy it and I havent regretted it yet. It took a few days to acclimate to it but thats true of anything more complicated than a pair of scissors. You can download the Silhouette software for free from Silhouette America.com and work with it. I added the designers edition upgrade to the software and had the pictured diorama ready to cut by the time the Cameo arrived. Please notice the delicate paper grasses in the front of the scene. (My cat did; she ate one.) I could never do that on the Pazzle. The following month I bought some heat transfer vinyl and created the parrot T. If you notice a shadow behind the design, thats the residue from my first messed up attempt. You MUST be sure the autoblade is all the way down in the first blade holder before cutting anything. There are Youtube vids for this and just about anything else you might need to know. Also the loud clacking noise it makes at the beginning of a new cut is normal. Its just the Cameo adjusting the autoblade. The first day I kept unplugging the machine thinking something was wrong. Once I installed the blade correctly & stopped panicking when I heard the autoblade adjusting, I cut the diorama pictured. There is a users manual on Silhouettes website for the Cameo 3 & the software, but I havent finished it. What can I say, Youtube & Google are quicker & easier. There is so much more the Cameo is capable of that I havent yet tried. Im retired and have a limited budget, but eventually Ill have all the supplies I want. Im looking forward to making some awesome Christmas decorations.

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It took google to figure out how to install the blade properly since there are no directions with the machine and I couldn’t figure it out through the install software. Once I got that down, I’ve been having fun designing and cutting vinyl, htv, and paper. The computer software is pretty easy to use, especially compared to my old cutter (a craft robo- the silhouette’s predecessor). I occasionally have to adjust the auto settings as they aren’t perfect but that is quick and easy to do.

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