What Is A Pixscan Mat

Use any graphic any image or even your and load it to your silhouette studio software.

What is a pixscan mat.

Cardstock or white stick paper. Silhouette pixscan cutting mat for use with cameo pixscan technology allows you to cut precisely around any printed image or position cut lines in a specific location on your material using a camera or scanner. When you use pixscan mobile you can take a picture of an image on the pixscan mat trace it and edit it in the app and cut it out. Any material placed on the mat can be imported into silhouette studio via scanner or camera and then have cut lines assigned through tracing drawing tools or opening designs.

Step 3 import your image into the silhouette studio and add cut lines. Pixscan mats are great for precision. Print the labels and trim down to about an 8 10 size. You place your material card stock in this example on the mat take a photo of it and.

The silhouette pixscan mat is used for two main purposes. Use the standard photo size not square. First download the pixscan mobile app on your device. For optimal results when photographing or scanning the pixscan mat ensure that no zoom is used your lighting is even the entire mat is clearly visible in the image the pixscan mat is flat and the cut media is contained within the black cut border.

Place on your pixscan mat and take a photo with your phone or camera. Pixscan is perfect for digitizing a stamp collection or turning a hand drawn sketch into a cut job. It is simple and easy to use and the possibilities are endless as to what kinds of creations you can make using the pixscan mat. Pixscan takes a photo or scanned image of a physical mat and places it on the virtual mat in exactly the right size orientation and position.

To accurately and preciously cut pre printed materials like a print and cut for pre printed materials and also to sketch etch or cut with extreme accuracy on very small craft blanks or vinyl scraps. Learn how to use the silhouette pixscan mat with this tutorial. Pixscan is perfect for digitizing a stamp collection or turning a hand drawn sketch into a cut job. It will open with a brief tutorial.

Take a picture using your smartphone or scan in your pixscan mat. Pixscan technology cuts according to an image s actual size. What does this mean. The pixscan mat comes with its own registration marks which allows it to use the silhouette s optical scanner to find the right place to cut.

Using the silhouette pixscan mat. Pixscan mats are used with silhouette cameos to hold your vinyl htv card stock or other material in place while being cut by the cameo after you have used a photograph to know exact placement of material and designs. To do this you need a specially marked pixscan mat and a software module that is built into silhouette studio v3 1 and higher.