Cricut mat sizes and cut areas, plus Silhouette mats

Each mat and the most it cuts

The cut area is smaller than the mat: the machine holds the mat by its edges, and the blade stops short of them.

Cutting without a mat

Cricut Smart Materials feed into Joy, Explore 3, Maker 3, Venture and newer machines without a mat. On a Maker 3, Smart Vinyl cuts up to 11.7 in wide and 12 ft long, and Smart Iron-On up to 11.7 in by 4 ft. A design too big for a mat but the right size for a Smart Material is set to Without Mat on its own.

A worked example

Our tapered cup wrap example is 272.6 × 122.7 mm flat. On a 12 × 12 in mat it fits the 292 mm cut area with 19 mm to spare along its length. On a Joy Xtra mat it fits when it runs along the 298 mm side, with the 122.7 mm height across the 210 mm width. On a Joy mat it does not fit: its 122.7 mm height is 15 mm more than the mat’s 108 mm width. Shrinking it would change the cup it fits, so a wrap this size needs a bigger mat.

See the tapered cup wrap →

Change the mat in Design Space

1. Select Make. On Windows or Mac, choose the Material Load Type from the drop-down, then click Material Size on the left and pick the mat.
2. On an iPhone or iPad, tap the mat icon at the top left, then Material Load Type; tap Material Size to pick the mat.
3. On Android, tap Material Load and choose the load type, then pick a size from the list.
4. If the mat you want is not in the list, an image is bigger than that mat’s cut area. Resize it on the Canvas, or turn it a quarter, and try again.

Convert inches to millimeters

Multiply inches by 25.4. The 11.5 in cut area is 292.1 mm; Cricut rounds it to 29.2 cm. Enter the cut area, not the mat size, in the fit and layout tools.