Skycut D Series - Speed and up Speed; Blade Offset

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2.03.2 Speed and Up Speed
• Speed (also called Cut Speed) is how fast the blade travels while it is in the “down” or cutting position. Up
Speed is how fast the blade travels while in the “up” position, such as when it is moving from the origin to
the location of the first shape to cut or when moving from one cut shape to begin cutting another.
• The Skycut has 12 speed settings ranging from “snail’s pace slow” to “insanely fast.”
 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.
• Cut Speed is usually more important to control since the blade may need more contact time with a
particular material. Up Speed 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.
• 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 current Blade Offset settings to use for each of the three types of Skycut blades:
 Red capped blade: 0.3 mm
 Blue capped blade: 0.4 mm
 Yellow capped blade: 0.75 mm
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.