## Choose by recovery burden
A narrow bookmark and a broad coaster create different alignment, bridge, sorting, and damaged-part problems. Choose the geometry you can test, label, dry-fit, and recover before choosing a decorative direction.
## Compare the exact active products
The [six-design Layered Mandala Bookmark Files](/products/29-layered-mandala-bookmark-laser-cut-files-6-designs) are $8.99. The [six-design Botanical Lace Mandala Bookmark Bundle](/products/74-botanical-lace-mandala-bookmark-laser-cut-bundle) is $5.97. The [six-design Layered Floral Coaster Bundle](/products/30-layered-floral-coaster-laser-cut-file-bundle-6-designs) is $9.99. Prices and availability can change.
## Verify the package shape
Each approved package contains one customer ZIP and one separate illustrated guide PDF. The manifests record two upload files, both present and below the marketplace limit, ten listing images, and no warnings.
## Verify six format counterparts
Every ZIP contains a README, preview catalog, six SVG files, six DXF files, and six PNG counterparts. These are three file roles for six designs, not eighteen separate designs.
## Verify manifest geometry
Each manifest records six vector designs, closed geometry, and zero duplicate cut lines. Those checks apply to the approved sources and do not promise that later edits preserve them.
## Verify the SVG canvas
All eighteen inspected SVGs use a 0 0 1000 1000 viewBox with no fixed width or height. Import units and displayed size still depend on the chosen software.
## Verify element structure
Products 29 and 74 use five to seven polygon elements per SVG and no ellipses. Product 30 uses four to six polygons plus one ellipse. The files contain no path or group elements.
## Verify v1 PNG facts
Products 29 and 30 include 1800×1800 RGB PNG counterparts with approximately 300-DPI metadata and no alpha channel. A raster preview does not establish cut geometry or finished physical size.
## Record absent evidence
The manifests do not enumerate layer count, registration points, minimum gap, or smallest island. Treat each as an inspection task, not as a promised package fact.
## Keep customer and preview files separate
Use the delivered ZIP, SVG, DXF, PNG, README, preview catalog, and guide for the workflow. Listing imagery and staged objects are previews, not source files, material samples, finished-size proof, or performance evidence.
## Inspect import units
Open a named working copy and record the software, version, imported width, height, units, viewBox, and scale. Do not assume that 1000 viewBox units equal millimeters or inches.
## Inspect closed geometry again
Select each object after import and run the exact software operation required by the workflow. Conversion, simplification, offsetting, welding, or ungrouping can change closure.
## Measure the narrowest bridge
At the intended finished size, measure the thinnest connection between larger regions. Compare it with manufacturer-supported machine, tool, material, kerf, and handling limits.
## Measure the smallest gap
Find the tightest space between neighboring boundaries. Record whether kerf, blade offset, material movement, residue, or cleanup can close or distort it.
## Measure the smallest feature
Locate the finest tip, shortest edge, tightest internal corner, smallest counter, and loosest-looking island after import and scaling.
## Inspect counters
Identify enclosed negative spaces and determine whether each should remain open, become a loose part, or be supported by a bridge. Confirm against the exact design and guide.
## Inspect loose islands
List detached shapes before cutting. Decide how each will be labeled, oriented, stored, aligned, and recovered if lost or damaged.
## Find registration references
Look for shared outside edges, centerlines, corners, circles, repeated outlines, or temporary jigs. No explicit registration metadata is promised.
## Compare bookmark proportions
Bookmarks place long edges, narrow bridges, and internal detail close to an elongated perimeter. Proof the densest center, weakest connection, and straightness after handling without promising page-safe performance.
## Compare coaster proportions
Coasters spread geometry across a square and may include a circular element. Proof outside dimensions, edge registration, internal openings, and adhesive access without promising liquid, heat, food-contact, or durability performance.
## Build a provisional layer map
After import, label each cut object by product, design, proposed order, face direction, rotation, material, and revision. Mark assumptions until a dry fit and guide review confirm them.
## Define finished scale
Choose a supported target width and height, then verify the smallest bridge, gap, counter, island, and alignment reference at that exact scale.
## Test material thickness
Measure the actual test material and compare it with manufacturer specifications. Thickness, flatness, grain, coating, finish, and lot variation can change cutting and assembly.
## Run a calibration coupon
Use a separate supported test file to evaluate kerf or blade offset, inside and outside dimensions, narrow strips, corners, and openings before cutting a design.
## Dry-fit without adhesive
Cut one representative design in test material, sort every part, and assemble it dry. Inspect alignment, edge reveal, rotation, mirrored pieces, counters, and access.
## Measure adhesive access
Identify where adhesive can be applied without entering openings, edges, or visible faces. Follow the adhesive and material makers' compatibility, ventilation, clamping, cure, cleanup, and disposal instructions.
## Test a simple design
Choose the design with the fewest observed objects or broadest features. Record import, scale, cut, cleanup, sorting, dry-fit, and recovery evidence.
## Test a median design
Choose a middle-complexity design using the same counting rule. Repeat the evidence record instead of extrapolating from the simplest file.
## Test a dense design
Choose the design with the greatest observed object count or narrowest meaningful features. Inspect bridge survival, small gaps, cleanup, alignment, and part loss.
## Test smaller scale separately
Create one named smaller working copy and repeat the measurement and proof process. Uniform scaling does not guarantee viable bridges, gaps, counters, or alignment.
## Plan part sorting
Use a labeled tray, envelope, or map for each design and proposed layer. Count parts before adhesive is opened and keep mirrored or rotated pieces distinct.
## Define a damaged-part record
Record product, design, format, source object, size, material, face direction, layer assumption, revision, machine, tool, and settings for any failed piece.
## Recut only a named part
Export only the verified source object for the damaged part. Preserve scale, rotation, kerf treatment, and revision, then reconcile it with unchanged dry-fit parts.
## Rehearse loss recovery
Set aside one test piece, locate its source object, export and recut it on scrap, and verify that the replacement preserves alignment and outside dimensions.
## Reopen before reuse
Close and reopen the original source, working file, cut export, provisional layer map, and recovery export. Verify product, design, units, size, geometry, orientation, and revision.
## Archive and restore
Keep the untouched ZIP, guide, README, preview catalog, SVG, DXF, PNG, working files, proofs, settings, and recovery notes. Restore to a temporary location and verify counts, hashes, dimensions, and revision.
## Use the bookmark-versus-coaster guide
The [bookmark-versus-coaster guide](/blog/layered-coaster-vs-bookmark-laser-cut-files) compares narrow and square geometry, assembly, and material decisions.
## Use the layered-SVG guide
The [layered laser-cut bundle guide](/blog/how-to-choose-a-layered-laser-cut-svg-bundle) adds layer-order, registration, minimum-feature, adhesive, and proof controls.
## Choose materials and adhesive carefully
The [materials and adhesives guide](/blog/materials-and-adhesives-for-layered-laser-cut-projects) connects thickness, kerf, surface preparation, access, clamping, cure, and safety.
## Run complete preflight
The [layered-project preflight](/blog/layered-laser-cut-project-preflight-checklist) joins files, software, machine, material, ventilation, fire, assembly, and recovery checks.
## Diagnose import changes
The [SVG import troubleshooting guide](/blog/svg-imports-at-the-wrong-size-or-with-unexpected-grouping) helps verify viewBox, units, dimensions, grouping, and export behavior.
## Compare adjacent variants
The [bookmark and coaster variant guide](/blog/mandala-bookmark-floral-coaster-variants-registration-bridge-recovery) adds four-product geometry evidence while this guide keeps the choice to the three exact active products.
## Protect privacy and license boundaries
Remove account, order, customer, workshop, device, and private-link data from proofs. Confirm the current license before sharing, transfer, resale, redistribution, upload, or modification.
## Keep labels descriptive
Mandala-like, botanical-like, lace-like, and floral-like describe visible directions only. They do not establish species, culture, tradition, artist, handmade process, origin, provenance, material, or method.
## Confirm digital-only delivery
No physical bookmark, coaster, material, adhesive, laser, cutter, blade, bit, mat, clamp, tool, or finished item is included.
## Follow manufacturer-led safety
Follow current laser, cutter, blade, bit, beam, mat, bed, material, adhesive, clamp, electrical, ventilation, heat, fire, PPE, cleanup, storage, and disposal instructions. Never leave heat or cutting equipment unattended.
## Expect result variation
Import, units, scale, geometry, kerf, blade offset, bridges, gaps, loose parts, registration, adhesion, fit, recovery, and finished results vary with software, machine, tool, material, settings, environment, maintenance, and technique.
## Final buyer checklist
Confirm the active product, price, six designs, six SVG/DXF/PNG counterparts, viewBox, absent layer and registration claims, bridge, gap, counters, islands, finished scale, material, calibration, dry fit, sorting, recovery, reopen, restore, license, privacy, digital-only delivery, safety, descriptive limits, and variation.