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 The following video shows how to use a glue pen and the blade holder for an aligned “draw and cut.” This
same method will work with the other KNK models:

Adjusting for the Difference in Diameters of Tools and Blade Holders

 The following method was first presented by Bryan Williams in an MTC Forum webinar. Diane Hiscoe made
the video above, using Bryan’s method and inspired me to create the following tutorial. Thanks, Diane!
 If you plan to use two tools with different diameters, then you will face an alignment problem. In the following
example, two glasses and an inner circle will be drawn with a silver gel pen and then the outside circle cut
out.

 Because the gel pen is thin, it sits further back in the blade holder seat than the blade holder. With no
adjustments made, the resulting drawn image and cut circle are out of alignment:

 However, there is a straight-forward method one can use to compensate for tools with different diameters.
This method involves adding a rectangle, within MTC, around the shapes. This rectangle will be drawn with
the pen and then the corners will be used as registration marks for a print and cut process:

The red line is the cut line. The
other lines will be drawn with
A rectangle is added which the gel pen. These lines are the
completely surrounds the glasses, inner circle, and outer
shapes in the project. rectangle.

This rectangle should be on
its own layer.

 The layers to be drawn (glasses, inner circle, and outer rectangle) are showing on the Layers Bar and the
layer with the cut line is turned off:

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