Cricut Blade Settings
Posted by
superjoy on
December 9, 2009
The
Regular Blade Housing that comes with the Cricut is Green, unless you
have a colored Cricut then it is most likely the color of your machine.
(following info is from Cricut)
The Cricut is really just a paper/cardstock cutter. A range of vellum
to Bazzill is very safe. Other products may be tried, both of the
thinner or thicker variety, but results are not guaranteed. In fact,
using something extreme will most likely void the warranty. We don’t say
that to scare you away from experimenting, but there are just too many
materials out there to know what the results would be.

That said, the basic guidelines are that the material (paper or
otherwise) needs to be stiff and firm enough for the blade to drag
through it. So a more stretchy fabric would probably not work, unless it
had Wonder-Under or something to keep it in place. Pages 14 and 15 in
your Cricut user manual address the various recommended settings for
blade length, speed, and pressure settings to use while cutting various
types of paper.

Here are some Cricut recommended paper settings to try:
| Cricut™ Paper Settings |
| 65# | 80# | Bazzill |
| Speed = Max | Speed = High | Speed = Low |
| Pressure = High | Pressure = Max | Pressure = Max |
| Blade Depth = 4 | Blade Depth = 5 | Blade Depth = 6 |
Deep Cut Blade Settings:

The deep cut blade is recommended for:
Magnet (0.035″/0.80mm thick) with the recommended settings of
Speed 3 (medium)
Pressure 5 (max)
Depth 6
Multi Cut 4
Chipboard (0.059″/1.50mm thick) with the recommended settings of
Speed 3 (medium)
Pressure 4 (high)
Depth 6
Multi Cut 5
Stamp (0.0415″/1.05mm thick) with the recommended settings of
Speed 3 (medium)
Pressure 4(high)
Depth 4.6
Multi Cut 1
Remember
to REMOVE THE RUBBER ENDED TIP before using your new blade!!! That tip
is covering the blade. The rounded end goes up into the housing. When
you push down that little plunger at the top, the magnet inside will
pull the rounded end securely into the housing.