These are the Silhouette Cameo Cut Settings I always use for cutting and scoring my papers on my Silhouette Cameo 3 cutting machine based on the gsm of paper used.
Convert gsm to lbs:
- 80gsm – 30lbs
- 160gsm – 60lbs
- 200gms – 75lbs
- 250gsm – 95lbs
- 300gsm – 110lbs
Silhouette Studio has preset cut settings for cutting different types of materials from vinyl to paper card stocks. But I like to tweak the settings a bit to make a quality cut.
80gsm paper
Simple or Intricate Cut
Best settings for cutting simple or intricate cuts on a thin papers
- Blade – 2
- Force – 15
- Speed – 10
Kiss Cut Sticker Paper
Best settings for making a kiss cuts on 80gsm sticker papers
- Blade – 1
- Force – 10
- Speed – 10
160gsm paper
Usually these are the thickness of patterned card stock papers.
Simple Cut
- Blade – 2
- Force – 10
- Speed – 5-10
Intricate Cut
- Blade – 2
- Force – 15
- Speed – 5
200gsm paper
Simple Cut
For simple shapes and design, I just use blade number 3 and depending on the gsm of your paper I play around 18-24 for the force.
- Blade – 3
- Force – 20
- Speed – 4
Intricate Cut
You would want for the speed to go slower when cutting very intricate and detailed design so you might want to play around with the speed settings. I always use speed number 1.
- Blade – 3
- Force – 23
- Speed – 1
Score Cut
This is the setting I use for scoring the paper or making a kiss cut for your sticker paper.
- Blade – 1
- Force – 5
- Speed – 4
250gsm paper
It included glittered 250gsm paper
Simple Cut
- Blade – 6
- Force – 33
- Speed – 3
Intricate Cut
- Blade – 6
- Force – 30
- Speed – 3
- Passes – 2
300gsm paper
Cutting Intricate or detailed design
For thicker paper, you need to use higher settings of the blade. If your machine is fairly new going between 7-8 would be ideal. Going for a slower speed setting would also help cut the design better.
- Blade – 8
- Force – 25-28
- Speed – 1
