# Cake Topper with Two Stakes (SVG Generator) 🎂, and Making cute animals in Cuttle 🐦

JUL 11, 2023

Here's the latest with [Cuttle](https://cuttle.xyz/).

-   New template: [Cake Topper with](https://cuttle.xyz/@cuttle/Cake-Topper-with-Two-Stakes-C0NAnTv1clo0) [_Two Stakes_](https://cuttle.xyz/@cuttle/Cake-Topper-with-Two-Stakes-C0NAnTv1clo0)
-   Short video: [Making cute animals from basic shapes](https://www.instagram.com/p/CuiehTiMbFz/)
-   New basic shapes: Semicircle, Pie Slice, Moon Phase
-   Categorized [Templates](https://cuttle.xyz/templates) page

## [Cake Topper with](https://cuttle.xyz/@cuttle/Cake-Topper-with-Two-Stakes-C0NAnTv1clo0) [_Two Stakes_](https://cuttle.xyz/@cuttle/Cake-Topper-with-Two-Stakes-C0NAnTv1clo0) 🎂✌️

![](https://cuttle-content.imgix.net/blog/cake-topper-with-two-stakes-svg-generator-and-making-cute-animals-in-cuttle/96354197449db200ce6b70495164fdf7d3d84285f0ec77373a04ad7c957ffc86.jpg?auto=compress,format&q=60&fit=max&w=720&h=720&dpr=2)

After we released our [Cake Topper](https://cuttle.xyz/@cuttle/Cake-Topper-Generator-Lq1sMetUmSul) template, several folks requested a version with two stakes.

This [new variation has two stakes](https://cuttle.xyz/@cuttle/Cake-Topper-with-Two-Stakes-C0NAnTv1clo0). You can customize the text, the font, and the placement of the stakes!

![](https://content.cuttle.xyz/blog/cake-topper-with-two-stakes-svg-generator-and-making-cute-animals-in-cuttle/b38c8bfc24b925f177a66d0fe1439f163bbd191dbc2adf2888852b794429b717.gif)

We are happy to take requests for templates — variations on existing ones or new ones! Just reply to this email if you have an idea 🤗

## [Making cute animals from basic shapes](https://www.instagram.com/p/CuiehTiMbFz/) 🐦

Federico posted a [charming short video](https://www.instagram.com/p/CuiehTiMbFz/) (1 min) to [our Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/cuttlexyz/), showing how to make cute animals from Ed Emberley’s classic Drawing Book out of basic shapes in the Cuttle editor.

![](https://cuttle-content.imgix.net/blog/cake-topper-with-two-stakes-svg-generator-and-making-cute-animals-in-cuttle/bfa7caf0fbdd3715c5f10741d49bde980f542a566230885326fea730d46dbcee.jpg?auto=compress,format&q=60&fit=max&w=720&h=720&dpr=2)

[Check it out on our Instagram!](https://www.instagram.com/p/CuiehTiMbFz/)

This video is a study for a **Beginner’s Course** that Federico and I are working on. We’re trying to make a structured introduction to laser cut design in Cuttle for absolute beginners. If you’d be interested in taking a first version of this course, let me know! (Reply to this email.)

## New basic shapes 🌒

![](https://content.cuttle.xyz/blog/cake-topper-with-two-stakes-svg-generator-and-making-cute-animals-in-cuttle/e2cd80f42ebdb3a3deabb0f6bca5fd2576f91c03053f83716707a18f49eff9ff.gif)

Based on user feedback we added a few new basic shapes: **Semicircle**, **Pie Slice**, and **Moon Phase**.

**Moon Phase** is particularly fun as you can change the moon with the `phase` parameter:

![](https://content.cuttle.xyz/blog/cake-topper-with-two-stakes-svg-generator-and-making-cute-animals-in-cuttle/73cb0706e89fb68e176399de3f6db2a1cffa2c16d17135446aaae66916c56f73.gif)

## Categories on the [Templates](https://cuttle.xyz/templates) page 🗂️

![](https://cuttle-content.imgix.net/blog/cake-topper-with-two-stakes-svg-generator-and-making-cute-animals-in-cuttle/81c0f2c747f3245c7f24668aef709d82e199a576d8fd86ca65f3536d9d9a4862.jpg?auto=compress,format&q=60&fit=max&w=720&h=720&dpr=2)

There were getting to be too many templates in our library 😅 so we did a quick redesign to organize them into categories!

## Other Improvements and Fixes 🐞

-   Undo and redo has been improved to better preserve the selection and focused component.
-   Cuttle now saves your project only when it actually changes. Previously, when you made a selection, expanded something in the inspector, or changed the focused component, we would treat that as a change to the project and save. This resulted in published projects showing a blue ✔️ (indicating the project had changed since last published) or the browser to show a warning about leaving the page before saving changes.
-   The styling of YouTube embeds has been improved.
-   More compact SVG export: Cuttle now simplifies geometry by removing groups before exporting.
-   Fixed a bug where the <title> tag was missing from exported SVGs.
-   Fixed image rasterization when exporting to SVG and PDF. Previously the rasterization setting was ignored and images were always rasterized.
-   Fixed Axis/Ray intersections with cubics. This caused some snapping points between guides and paths to not appear.
-   Fixed a bug where tooltips would appear even while dragging.
-   Fixed a styling issue that made the Pro upgrade modal unusable on mobile.

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Toby Schachman