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Know Where Your Images Will Cut

 Practice with the test pen until you know, with 100% confidence, where your images will be drawn. This is
important since you do not want to be guessing when you begin actually cutting with a blade. Refer to
Section 2.07.

Adjust Blade Offset
 What is the blade offset? It 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:

Imagine a line
passing through There is no The Offset is the distance between
the center of the Offset on a the center of the blade holder and
test pen or pen. the tip of the blade.
blade

 What happens if you set the Blade Offset to 0? Or what if it’s set too high?

Offset is too low: Offset is too low: Offset is too high:
paths do not close outer corners are Divots will appear
rounded around corners
 Refer to Section 2.06 for setting the Blade Offset.

Don’t Get Frustrated, Get Help!

 Besides having your own KNK dealer as the first line of contact, there are many user forums, message
boards, Yahoo groups, etc where you can post questions and get answers from other users, dealers, and
Make The Cut experts. Utilize these resources!
 KNK Support Forum: http://knkusa.com/forums/
 KNK Groove Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KNK_Groove/
 Make The Cut Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/makethecut/

2.02 Cut With Klic-N-Kut

 Before accessing the cutting window, you need to have at least one shape on the current page to cut. If you
have no shapes, then attempting to access the cutting window will result in a popup message stating,
“There is nothing inside the current project to cut!”
 To confirm what will cut, you can access the Cut Preview function in the following ways:

 Click on the Cut Preview icon on the File Toolbar
 Press Ctrl+Shift+E

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