Designer settings reference

The settings inspector changes to match the Thing to make selection. A setting that does not apply to the current object is hidden. A setting that depends on another option stays visible but disabled until that option is enabled. The inspector displays the reason beside state-dependent disabled controls and tells you which option makes them available.

Changes update the 3D preview. Use a profile to reuse manufacturing settings such as blade and handle dimensions; the current design's image and size are kept separate. A Modified badge means the current manufacturing settings no longer match the selected profile.

Size, units, and object type

Units changes the displayed size between millimetres and inches without resizing the model. Set size of can control the longest side or expose separate width and height fields. Use the lock beside width and height to keep the source image's aspect ratio while resizing.

Thing to make selects the geometry workflow:

• Cutter creates an outer cutting wall and handle.
• Imprint Cutter adds image details inside the cutting wall. Edges only removes the filled imprint floor.
• Stamp creates a backed stamp without a cutting blade. Cutter + Stamp produces the matching parts together.
• Cutter Set builds separate cutters from disconnected shapes.
• Multi Cutter repeats one design in a grid.
• Sandwich Cutter, Cake Pop Mold, Texture Roller, Cake Topper, Stencil, and Practice Cookie expose their specialized sections.

Premium-marked object types and controls can be previewed while designing, but downloading a design that uses them requires a Premium account. The download dialog lists the active Premium features and can remove them where a free equivalent exists.

Blade and cutting edge

All blade dimensions are millimetres.

• Blade depth is the height of the cutting wall above the base. Blade thickness controls its wall thickness.
• Extra blade depth and Extra blade thickness add supporting geometry below the primary cutting edge.
• Chamfer tip width and Chamfer height shape a narrowed cutting tip when Sharp cutting edge is enabled.
• Symmetric blade tapers both sides of the blade. Fondant blade uses a one-sided taper whose extent is set by Taper width. The two modes are mutually exclusive.
• Rounded edge rounds the tip for applications such as clay cutters.

Imprints and stamps

Imprint depth measures the imprint surface from the blade; zero is flush. Stamp imprint depth controls the raised stamp detail. Imprint base width widens the supporting floor and is unavailable when Remove imprint base or Edges only is active.

Depth curves change how image detail transitions into its floor:

• Flat has no curved transition.
• Dome, Round, and Chamfer use different profiles. Older designs that stored Valley, Linear, or Ellipse continue to load as their equivalent current curve.
• Curve direction chooses whether the curve expands inward or outward.
• Curve target applies the curve to holes, fills, or both. When both are selected, direction chooses whether fills point out or in; holes use the opposite direction.
• Curve inset sets the horizontal extent of curves that support an inset.
• Apply curve to outer edge includes the outside stamp edge.

Invert swaps filled and empty image regions and is disabled for non-flat depth curves. Delete outer edge removes the detected outside image path; Method either preserves the detected outline or offsets the remaining geometry inward. The controls are unavailable when the current path data says the operation is unsafe.

For matching cutter-and-stamp parts, Stamp cutter tolerance controls their clearance. Stamp back thickness controls the backing thickness.

Bases, handles, and stamp grips

Base height, Base width, and Handle shape define the standard rim. Symmetric handle centers the handle around the blade instead of extending it to one side.

Add press handle adds a larger grip. Choose round, rectangular, or rounded rectangular geometry, then set its length, width, corner radius, position, rotation, and overlap with the cutter. Position is a percentage along the outside path. Negative overlap separates the handle; positive overlap joins it more deeply.

Stamp grips support threaded and glue-chamfer connections. Automatic placement chooses a safe point; manual placement enables the X and Y percentage fields. Socket depth, diameter, clearance, grip height, diameter, and bottom rounding are millimetres. Cake Pop Mold grip settings apply to the two-piece plunger and are otherwise disabled.

Repetition and center bars

For Multi Cutter designs, Rows and Columns are whole numbers of at least one. Spacing is in millimetres: a negative number overlaps neighbours, zero makes them touch, and a positive number leaves a gap.

Center bars connect separate regions. Each bar has an angle from 0 to 179 degrees, a percentage position along the design, and a width in millimetres. Force solid bars removes internal detail from bar geometry. Legacy horizontal and vertical bar values are converted into the current list of positioned bars when an older design is opened.

Text and name plates

Custom text places text directly on a cutter wall or stamp side. Select a font, point size, line distance, raised extrusion in millimetres, and position along the outside path. Cutter + Stamp can copy the same text to the stamp side.

Name plate adds raised text on its own backing. The backing can follow an offset around the letters or use a rectangle with independent horizontal and vertical padding. Plate overlap joins it to the body; plate thickness and raised text height control the vertical geometry. Multi Cutter can create one plate per repeated cutter. Cake toppers use the same controls for their message and text backing.

Text-dependent controls are disabled until their section is enabled. Disabling the section hides the text from the model without discarding the other formatting values.

Specialized objects

Stencil

Set the individual Shape size, then choose a layout mode:

• Grid uses explicit whole-number rows and columns.
• Dimensions fits the pattern inside total width and height.
• Computed grid spacing derives spacing from the dimensions.

Grid spacing separates shapes; border margin leaves material around the outer row. Patterns can be rectangular, diagonal, or random. Backing thickness has its own unit selector. Generate loose interior features retains detached islands such as eyes or a nose that would otherwise fall out of a stencil.

Cake topper

Include image controls image relief independently of the text plate. Image backing offset expands its support, while base height and relief height control the vertical geometry. Pin length, width, and horizontal position define the stake. Image fields are disabled when the image is excluded.

Sandwich cutter

Dent shape, size, spacing, and depth configure the crimping marks. Seal width sets the sealing band and cutter gap separates it from the outer cutter. Enable round dents to use a rounding radius. Generate stamp produces the companion stamp; edge-stamp offset direction is fixed while that output is enabled.

Cake pop mold

Choose a single- or two-piece plunger and either an imprint or outline-only stamp face. Back-plate thickness, plunger clearance, and stem-hole clearance are in millimetres. Enabling the support tray exposes its rotation, clearance, cutout depth, margin, and length controls. Cutout depth is a percentage; clearance, margin, and tray length are millimetres.

Texture roller

Padding adds clear space around the source pattern. Rotate or invert the source when needed, then choose raised or engraved relief. Repeat, brick, and mirror patterns use 1–32 whole-number repeats around and along the roller. End rims expose rim width and height. Axle-hole diameter creates the center opening. Length segments range from 16–512; radial segments range from 32–720.

Paths, mirroring, and advanced controls

For designs with multiple source shapes, the contextual Outline all helper can preserve the source or replace it with a rectangle, square, circle, or hull. Blade controls expose Inner edges only where supported and Offset inward for blade-based objects. Imprint thickness is a signed Advanced offset. Mirror flips the model; supported single-object types can also use Mirrored pair to output both orientations. Negative Pair spacing overlaps the copies, zero makes them touch, and positive spacing adds a gap.

Appearance controls change the preview material, edge lines, size labels, and diagnostic curve highlights. They do not change the exported geometry.

Wall-thickness enforcement appears for imprint, stamp, Cake Topper, Texture Roller, and stamp-generating Sandwich Cutter workflows. Enabling it reveals Minimum wall thickness, Simplification distance, and Enforce specific thickness. Simplification trades contour detail for faster, simpler geometry; specific thickness makes centerlines use the requested thickness instead of combining the thickened line with the source.

Resolution accepts whole values from 1–200. Enter MAX to retain the legacy maximum-quality setting.

Resolution changes how densely source paths are sampled. Higher values can improve curved edges but increase generation time and file complexity.