THE TOOLBOX
Four converters run entirely in your browser — free, unlimited, and nothing leaves the tab. Two generators call a vector engine and cost credits. Every page states its own limits, including the ones that make it the wrong tool for your file.
RASTER → VECTOR
Turn a PNG into an SVG without uploading it. Trace colours into closed paths in your browser, see the layer and path count, then download SVG, DXF or PNG.
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Raster → vector
Convert a JPG or JPEG to SVG in your browser. JPEG compression leaves speckles, so this page explains the settings that remove them and shows the path count first.
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IMAGE → VECTOR
Convert an image to SVG without an account. Supports PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF, BMP and SVG, reports the path and layer count, and explains which images should not be traced at all.
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SVG → DXF
Convert SVG to DXF in your browser. Curves become polylines at 0.2 unit tolerance, the file is written as DXF R12 in millimetres at the width you choose, ready for LightBurn or AutoCAD.
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WORDS → VECTOR
Two different jobs share the phrase “text to SVG”: outlining typed letters, and drawing artwork from a description. This page does the second one and explains when to use the first.
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GENERATOR
Describe artwork and get flat vector paths back, ready for Cricut, Silhouette or a laser. What the engine does well, what it cannot do, and what one run costs.
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US$9.90 buys 1,000 credits: ten text generations at 100 credits, or sixteen image-reference generations at 60. Tracing never consumes credits.
BEFORE YOU CONVERT
Conversion is the easy half. These pages cover the checks that decide whether the result cuts.
CUT-READINESS
Six checks that separate a file you can cut from a preview that only looks finished.
DEFINITIONS
An SVG cut file is a vector file whose shapes a cutting machine can follow with a blade. What is inside it, what it is not, and how to tell a good one from a picture with an SVG extension.
WORKFLOW
Two routes from a photo or a logo to a file a blade can follow: trace it, or redraw it. Which one works depends on the picture, and the difference decides whether you waste a sheet of vinyl.
PRODUCTION
The four stages of building a cut file yourself — source, outline, layer, test — plus the node and stroke rules that decide whether it cuts cleanly on the first sheet.
LASER
Laser software cares about kerf, stroke width and real units — not about pretty previews. How to prepare an SVG for a laser, and when a DXF is the better file.