Where to Find the Silhouette Studio Firmware Updates

How to find firmware updates is really one of the most common questions I get.

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If you're having an issue with your hardware it's natural to think a firmware update will fix that. But if you go looking for a firmware update - you'll find it's not as simple as download and run it.

You can't download Silhouette firmware

Silhouette America stopped offering firmware as a separate download a few years back.

Before that, you could grab the file yourself and run it whenever you wanted. Now, the only way to get firmware onto your machine now is to be offered it inside Silhouette Studio.

Currently firmware updates and software updates are tied together.

Where to Find Firmware Updates

Let me show you exactly where to look to see if a firmware update is available.

Open Silhouette Studio with your machine connected and go to the Send panel.

If a firmware update is available you'll have a prompt telling you to update it.

If you don't have a firmware update it will look like this - no firmware update message.

But what do you do if you feel like your machine is a little buggy and no firmware update is available?

Well.. you need to go find a version of the software that has a firmware update and download the software first.

But not every version of Silhouette Studio version includes a firmware update so it can feel like you're on a wild goose chase.

Here's the trick - go to the Silhouette America software page > Legacy > Release Notes and then click on Release Notes you can do a "Find" on the page to find software versions that include a firmware update. Install a version of the software that includes a firmware version that's AFTER the current version you currently have. That's about the easiest and fastest way to identify which software version to install to force an update.

How to Install New Firmware Updates

Now that you know how to find firmware updates, you need to know how to install them. I walked through a full firmware update on a CAMEO 5 start to finish in a new video at Silhouette U, including if you should panic when nothing seems to be happening.

That's what a Silhouette U membership is for. Stop guessing your way through the parts of this hobby that nobody documents, and get same-day Silhouette help from a real person when your machine does something you didn't expect.

Watch the CAMEO 5 firmware update walkthrough at Silhouette U

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