The Silhouette Portrait® is a roll-through compact desktop cutting machine that allows you to cut materials with incredible precision. With its light weight, the Portrait is the perfect machine to take to events, craft parties, or anywhere you want to be creative. 


Portrait Features

The Portrait model includes the following features:

  • Perfect Cutting Width for Standard Materials 
    The Portrait has an 8-inch cutting width. This allows you to use most common material sizes, such as 8.5 inch x 11 inch (Letter) and A4 materials.
  • Matless Cutting Options 
    Bypass cutting mats when cutting rolled materials, such as vinyl and heat transfer, and cut up to 10 feet. Or cut select paper and cardstock materials using the new "Pop-out Cut" feature. Click here to learn more about matless cutting features.
  • Raised Materials Clearance 
    The Portrait has a height clearance of up to 2 mm.
  • Auto Tool Detection 
    Automatic tool detection updates the software automatically to select the blade or tool that is loaded in the machine.
  • Faster AutoBlade Adjustment 
    The machine's single-tap system resets the blade to help decrease the job's start-up time. 
  • Print & Cut 
    Use registration marks to cut out around the contour of printed designs. Click here to learn more about the Print & Cut feature.
  • USB & Bluetooth Connectivity Options 
    The Portrait can either hook up to your computer via USB or use a Bluetooth connection to send jobs to the machine.

Registration & Resources


Machine registration will provide you with the following:

  • FREE design content exclusive to the machine model
  • FREE 1-month Silhouette Design Store trial subscription ($25 value)
  • Access to additional notifications for product alerts
  • Machine Warranty activation


The machine registration page contains a setup video, resource links, and access to machine manuals. You can return to this setup page anytime to access information for your machine.