Skycut C16 - Blade Offset

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 The settings from 1 through 4 are the slow speeds and should be used when cutting dense difficult
materials, such as chipboard, craft plastic, styrene, and balsa.
 The settings from 5 through 8 are medium speeds and should be used for easy-to-cut materials, such
as cardstock, vinyl, iron-on transfer, and rhinestone template material.
 The settings from 9 through 12 are the fast speeds and are useful for engraving, embossing, and
drawing. You may, however, find that some materials will cut well at the faster speeds.
• Cutting Speed is usually more important to control since the blade may need more contact time with a
particular material. Up can usually be left quite high although, for print and cut accuracy, it may need to be
lowered if there are many shapes to be cut from a printout.
• Currently, SignCut Pro does not have the option to send Up Speed from the software. Thus, if you need a
separate Cut Speed and Up Speed, please use the control panel for this setting.
• On the Skycut control panel, the default setting is to have the Up Speed and Cut Speed the same and
referred to as SPEED. This can be adjusted by pressing the Force/Speed icon and then setting the
SPEED to the desired level. In order to enter a separate Up Speed on the control panel, refer to Section
1.14.1.
2.03.3 Blade Offset
• Blade Offset is the horizontal distance from the center of the blade shaft to the tip of the blade. A pen or
engraving tool has an offset of 0 because the tip is centered with the center of the pen/engraving tool shaft.
But a blade is different:
• If you set the Blade Offset to 0 when cutting with a blade, corners will be rounded. On the other hand, if it is
set too high, bubbles will be cut on sharp corners:
• Below are the approximate Blade Offset settings to use for each of the three types of Skycut blades:
 Red capped blade: 0.3 mm or 0.012 inches
 Blue capped blade: 0.4 mm or 0.016 inches
 Yellow capped blade: 0.75 mm or 0.029 inches
• Any time you order new blades, check for the recommended Blade Offset on the packaging. However, it’s
not unusual for blades to be slightly off-spec. Based on cutting a rectangle or square, increase or decrease
the Blade Offset in increments of 0.1 or smaller until the shape has perfectly square corners.
Offset is too low:
corners are rounded
Offset is too high: bubbles
appear at the corners
Imagine a line
passing through
the center of the
test pen or
blade
The Offset is the distance
between the center of the
blade holder and the tip of the
blade.
There is no
Offset
on a
pen.