Siygess

Thanks guys although it isn't exactly happy news - scoring and snapping the exterior edges is fine but I have a lot of small interior details with curves so they will have to be cut out of 15 thou by hand - and one slip up trashes the whole piece. Looks like I might just have to stick with the 10 thou and double up on the layers

Hi folks - I've been following this thread for a very long time with a view to purchasing a Silhouette machine for cutting plasticard and last year I finally took the plunge.. and it only took me six months to get it out the box and get started with it! I'm really struggling with material thickness, however, and the impression I get from reading all the previous posts is that I shouldn't be having these problems. I can cut through 10 thou plasticard with one pass (Blade setting 5, Thickness 33, Speed 1, Doublecut) but that's my backup plan because I really want to be working with 15 thou. However, I just can't cut through the blasted material! With a new blade, I've just tried blade settings 6 through 10 (none of these make a discernible difference), all at Thickness 33, Speed 1 and Doublecut. Even after 10 passes (technically 20 if you include Doublecut) it isn't going all the way through the material. Short of flipping the sheet over and cutting through from the other side (which I have tried, but even with the registration marks on the mat and everything lined up, it hasn't been accurate enough) I don't know what else to try. Is 15 thou really a lost cause, or should I be trying 20 passes instead of a mere 10?