A cake topper is a small object doing a structural job, and most decisions happen before the cut. Cardstock weights that stay upright, two ways to add rigidity, sizing to the cake, and the food safety rule.

Sublimation settings change with the blank rather than the printer, from 35 seconds for fabric to twelve minutes for tiles. Published figures for common substrates, the steps that matter, and failure diagnosis.

Curve, Offset, Weld, Attach and Slice look interchangeable and are not. What each tool does to a text object, which two are permanent, how they behave on an imported SVG, and the working order that stops you rebuilding a design from scratch.