Guides
What we have learnt printing cookie cutters, written as short answers rather than long articles. Every setting name is the one you will actually see in the slicer, because a guide that renames things is worse than no guide.
Slicer settings
The exact settings, named as they appear in your slicer.
Print settings for cookie cutters that work on almost any printer
One recipe, any printer. The numbers that matter for a tall thin blade, and why.
Cura settings for cookie cutters, and the tweaks that matter
Where every setting lives in Cura, with the values, and the two that people get wrong.
Bambu Studio and OrcaSlicer settings for cookie cutters
Exact settings for Bambu Studio and OrcaSlicer, including the ones hidden until you switch to Advanced.
PrusaSlicer settings for cookie cutters
Exact PrusaSlicer settings, including where Prusa hides the perimeter generator.
Designing and sizing
Getting the shape, the size and the lettering right before you print.
Cutter or stamp: what actually changes
They are different printing problems. What changes in the tool and in the slicer for each.
What size should a cookie cutter be?
Standard sizes in millimetres, how many biscuits you get, and how size decides what detail survives.
Artwork that traces cleanly
What makes an image trace well, what fails, and how to fix each one.
Where to get cookie cutter STL files
The free STL sites, what they are good and bad at, and the point where searching costs more time than making it yourself.
Text stamps that actually read
Font choice, stroke width and line mixing, so the words come out legible in the dough.
Filament, safety and care
What to print it in, whether it is safe, and how to keep it.
PLA or PETG for cookie cutters
The hot water question, honestly. Why the popular answer is not always the right one.
Washing and looking after printed cutters
How to wash them without destroying them, and how long they actually last.
Are 3D printed cookie cutters food safe?
The honest answer, what the research actually says, and the argument nobody makes properly.
Fixing and selling
When it goes wrong, and what you may legally sell.