Vinyl cutter how-to videos (AM training / support)

Product: AM.CO.ZA vinyl cutters (cutting plotters) for sign vinyl, car wraps and decals, heat transfer vinyl for T-shirts, stencil vinyl for screen printing and sandblasting, stickers and labels with contour cutting, plus AM film cutters for phone screen protector film. AM's current vinyl cutter lines are V-Smart / V-Smart Plus (V3-…), V-Auto (V6-…) and Vinyl4 (V4-…); V-Series (V-…) is an older line kept for support and spares. This index collects the AM YouTube videos about vinyl cutting that are not already listed in a brand index. Brand-titled videos and the core machine SKUs are in vsmart-howtos.md, vauto-howtos.md, vauto-label-howtos.md, vinyl4-howtos.md and vseries-howtos.md; AM's VinylCut software is in vinylcut-howtos.md, flatbed cutters in flatcut-howtos.md, and screen printers in screenmaster-howtos.md.

Source: local AM YouTube dump youtube.jsonl (main, tools, daily and academy channels; refreshed 2026-10-18 00:25 SAST). First written 2026-10-18 12:26 SAST with 93 videos. YouTube was not crawled. Titles and watch URLs below are taken from the dump, including any spelling slips or cut-off titles in the original. Videos were not watched; no transcripts are invented.

English dump titles (93 unique watch URLs)

Grouped for AM support and sorted by date inside each group. AM-channel uploads are framed as AM training/support sources. Each watch URL is a source. Matching used titles about vinyl cutters, vinyl cutting blades and blade holders, contour cutting and print-and-cut, applying cut vinyl, vinyl stencils and film cutters. Videos already listed in another AM how-to index were left out, so nothing is listed twice. Deduplicated by watch ID; videos that share a title but have distinct watch IDs are all kept.

Drivers, cutting software, plugins and cutter set-up

Setting up the vinyl cutter driver, Flexi vinyl cutting basics and the FlexiStarter overcut setting, the V-Smart Adobe Illustrator plugin, cutting directly from Illustrator as a Windows printer, the CorelDRAW contour cutting plugin, single and dual blade cut files for the automatic contour label cutter, SignMaster semi-automatic contour cutting, offline cutting of PLT files from a FAT32 flash drive, setting the origin point, loading vinyl correctly, assembling the cutter stands, and print-and-cut with Flexi.

Blades, blade holders, weeding tools, troubleshooting and maintenance

Fitting blades into the blade holder, choosing 30°, 45° and 60° blades, adjusting the blade holder and blade tip length for different vinyl thicknesses, how the carriage solenoid pushes the blade down, checking whether slow cutting comes from the computer or the cutter, solving lost steps, general owner tips, and the vinyl weeding tool kit.

Contour cutting and print-and-cut

What contour cutting is, normal versus contour cutting and automatic versus semi-automatic contour cutting, print-and-cut stickers and labels at AM and at Sign Africa Expo 2017, the 2018 V-Smart contour cutting models, UV printing on coloured vinyl to help the cutter pick up registration marks, and using a cutting mat for contour cutting.

Cutting and applying vinyl: signage, car wraps, stickers, labels and T-shirts (customer work)

T-shirt vinyl, wall art, house plans plotted on a cutter, engraving aluminium with 1 kg pressure, copper and aluminium foil, two-colour car stickers with lamination, car wraps and rear-windshield lettering with transfer tape, gel stickers with doming resin, student stationery, vape and health product labels, pickled fish bottle labels, multilayer and shadow-effect vinyl, Chromadek signboards, car dealership display hangers and barcodes.

Vinyl stencils for screen printing, sandblasting and fabric painting

Vinyl stencils for T-shirt fabric painting, single-screen and multi-colour screen printing (screen alignment on a 6-station carousel, bleed-over method, self-tensioning frames), headstone and tombstone sandblasting, glassware sandblasting and frosting vinyl for glass effects.

Film cutters for phone screen protector film

The V-Auto film cutter prototype cutting TPU privacy film, film cutter functions, protection film pricing and business opportunities, switching the film cutter off, and making phone film protectors.

Vinyl cutting business, range overviews, interviews, courses and stock

The vinyl cutter logo competition, an interview with sign and T-shirt expert Lee Ashford, transport vibration testing of cutter packaging, BusinessNow vinyl cutting business episodes, the Vinyl Studio cutter overview, the Ambitious Academy vinyl cutting course and online courses, and the vinyl roll stock promo.

Daily-channel vinyl cutter clips (2025–2026)

Short clips from 2025 and 2026 of V-Smart Plus V3-1360 and V3-1660 cutters cutting printed stickers, logos and shapes, and cutters ready to cut in the demo centre.

Related SKUs (Buythis dump only; no prices, no stock)

From the Buythis product dump (buythis.jsonl; not crawled; prices and stock are not stored on this index). 166 current blade, holder, tool, vinyl, film, software, course, machine-variant and spare-part SKUs for AM vinyl cutters that are not already listed in another AM how-to index. DTF films, laminator blades and screen printing squeegees are left out. Check the product page before quoting, because many spares only fit one cutter line or width.

Vinyl cutter blades: Roland, Mimaki and Graphtec compatible (V-B…, V3-B…, V5-B…, V5-CB30UC, V6-B…) (21)

Blade holders, carving holders, pen holders and pen refills (V-BH, V3-BH…, V-PH, V3-PH, V-PEN) (11)

Cutting mats, squeegees, weeding tools, protection strips, stands and collection baskets (AG-MAT, AG-SQUEEGEE, AG-STRIP, V-STRIP, V-WEED, V3-S740, V3-B900/1500/1800) (9)

Printable vinyl and cold laminating film rolls (V-50M…) (7)

Film cutter screen protector films, application kit and shape library access (V-FILM…, V6-FILM/180/KIT, V6-FILM/ACCESS) (7)

Cutting software, plugins and ready-to-cut designs (S-CUTTOOL/BLADE, S-SIGNMASTER, XC-WALLART) (3)

Vinyl cutting training courses (T-BASIC/PV, PVA, PVS) (3)

V-Smart and V-Auto machine variants not in the brand indexes (base models, B stand-and-basket, P platform and L software bundles, V6-440 desktop) (28)

V-Series spare parts (V-…) (24)

V-Smart and V-Smart Plus spare parts (V3-…) (30)

V-Auto spare parts (V6-…) (7)

Vinyl4 spare parts (V4-…) (15)

Graphtec cutter spare parts (V5-PR) (1)

Notes

• Matching: dump titles about vinyl cutters and vinyl cutting work, minus any video already in another AM how-to index (mostly vsmart-howtos.md, vauto-howtos.md, vinyl4-howtos.md, vseries-howtos.md and vinylcut-howtos.md).
• Some V-Smart and V-Auto titled videos (for example the 2018 V-Smart contour models, the 1 kg aluminium engraving demo and the 2026 daily V3-1360 and V3-1660 clips) were not in the brand indexes, so they are listed here instead.
• Left out because they are not vinyl cutter videos: printed vinyl signage without cutting, the UV printer sticker print clip, the flatbed cutter demo, the DTF sticker clip, Sunnyrock HQ vlogs, the free FIFA sticker giveaway and a general MakersLAB episode.
• Flexi and FlexiStarter are SAi third-party software, not AM software. VinylCut is AM software and has its own index.
• Older videos show earlier cutter models; check the current SKU list before quoting a model to a client.
• Live stock is never stored here; check the live stock feed for availability.