One format cuts, the other prints. This sets SVG against PNG for craft work, covering how each behaves when you scale it, edit it, or send it to a Cricut or Silhouette, and which to reach for on a given job.

A tapered tumbler unrolls as a shallow arc, not a rectangle, and that single fact explains most seam gaps. Working wrap dimensions for common blanks, the cone geometry behind them, why supplier templates differ, and where to place the seam.

An incomplete cut is almost always one of four things, and the order you check them in saves both money and material. Material setting, housing debris, pressure adjustment and blade wear, plus the mat and file problems that look like machine faults.