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• Do you have the pinch wheel lever raised (so that the pinch wheels are down)?

• Have you set the blade length based on the thickness of the material you are cutting?

• Do you have the blade holder firmly mounted in the blade holder seat and the blade tip at the correct height

above the material?

• Have you set the Origin (location of the blade tip) at the bottom right corner of your material (or wherever

you need the origin to be)?

• Have you set the Force? And the Speed?

• Have you selected the correct Blade Offset for the blade you are using?

• Do you need to turn on Passes for this material?

• Do you see the correct shapes in the preview window?

• Do you need to select Rotate, Mirror or Absolute (Position) options? Do you know, with confidence, where

your shapes are going to cut?

• Do you need to apply any weeding options?

2.08 Scale Calibration

• If you were to cut out any particular shape, for example, a 10” x 10” square, you might find that it actually

measures 9-15/16” x 10-1/32”. It will be very close to 10” x 10” but perhaps just slightly smaller or larger in

either or both dimensions. Now this might be perfectly acceptable for the type of cutting you do. Therefore, it

may not even be necessary to do this particular calibration. However, if you do want to make sure your

shapes are cut precisely to scale, the following procedure will allow you to calibrate your Skycut.

• The calibration process can be conducted in inches, cm, or mm. Both mm and inches will be presented

here. In general, it is recommended that mm be used, however, if you do not have a metric ruler, then you

can use inches instead.

• Before beginning this calibration, make sure the Scale setting on the Skycut itself is still set to 1.0 and 1.0.

On your Skycut control panel, go to Set>Advanced Settings> Scale. The following window opens where

you can check the current X Scale and Y Scale values:

• Return to the main screen. Then pick one of the two following sections and follow the instructions.

2.08.1 Scale Calibration Using Millimeters for Measurement

• SignMaster has a built-in resolution routine which can be used to easily perform this calibration:

Verify X Scale and Y Scale

are both set to 1.0000

Use the + and – buttons to adjust

the numbers, if needed