A craft cutter is available at Matatiki Hornby Centre (opening Friday 19 April 3pm), New Brighton, South, Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre, and Tūranga. You can use the craft cutter at Creative Times in those libraries.

Use our Book a Creative form to arrange a time that suits you to get one-on-one help.

We also have craft cutters that rotate around our network during special events, and holiday seasons.

Maximum material dimensions: When designing graphics for the Cameo cutter, keep in mind that it can only cut to a maximum width of 300mm. For vinyl which comes in rolls, the maximum width of 300mm still applies but longer graphics can be cut in one job (1m for best results).

Material depth is a maximum of 3mm if a 3mm Kraft blade is available to use.

Cameo cutter can also cut a variety of other materials but they will need to be provided.

File types include JPG, PNG, BMP, DXF, .studio, and .studio3.

The Silhouette Cameo 4 desktop cutting machine contains a very sharp blade that is controlled by a computer. The blade can move precisely to cut shapes out of materials such as paper, card, adhesive vinyl and heat transfer vinyl.

Create designs using Inkscape, Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer or Silhouette Studio software.

Use the craft cutter to  cut shapes out of materials such as paper, card, adhesive vinyl, heat transfer vinyl, sticker paper, or sublimation paper / invisible ink paper.

Customers are responsible for understanding their legal obligations under copyright, trademark, patent, and industrial law as well as their moral obligations to protect their own and others' intellectual property. Our libraries are busy public places. While we will endeavour to do our best to protect the privacy of your work, we cannot guarantee that it will not be seen by other customers. The Library reserves the right to refuse any request to use the craft cutter.