The Knife Blade uses the Adaptive Tool System to make cuts in multiple passes, increasing cutting depth and adjusting cutting pressure as the job progresses to give clean cuts without destroying the cutting mat. Knife Blade for thicker, denser material like chipboard, mat board, and balsa or basswood.Rotary Blade for fabric and delicate materials like crepe paper.The Maker features two main blades that combine this power and precision: The only other machines that use a separate servo motor to lift and turn the blade to make precision cuts (sometimes called “tangential cutting”) are commercial cutters that cost thousands of dollars. I cannot emphasize this enough: the Adaptive Tool System is completely unique to the Maker series and is found in no other craft cutter.
The Adaptive Tool System developed for the Maker links the gears of the drive housing to the gears of the ATS inside the machine, allowing the blade to lift and turn, controlling blade direction and cut pressure to match the material. Cricut debuted two new important features when it released the Maker:
