In the middle of Curbfeeler's F-14 restoration, Gov shows how he used a vinyl cutter to make masks for his Taxi. He mentions that "You have to have a good machine though for the detailed stuff." But it's not clear if the masks he made count as "detailed stuff". Can anyone who owns one of these things speak to whether or not a Cameo would be suitable for making the kind of masks that were used on this Taxi, or is it pretty much only good for straight lines and lettering?

I've tried importing my decals to an image and then importing them into Design Studio so I can trace them for Print and Cut. However, I was having problems getting the trace lines to get close enough to the black lines around each decal. Not even for the intricate parts, either. The red trace line for a long straight black line would be off by as much as an 1/8 of an inch in some cases. So I figured I would have an easier time if I paid the 30 bucks to upgrade so I can import SVG files. I'd think that if the software had the actual vector lines to go off of, its traces would be more accurate, right? Nope.

What are some techniques that people have used when using white-backed decals for print-and-cut to make sure that the blade cuts away as much of the surrounding white as possible?