Cut-ready CAD geometry from your vector artwork — layers, units and true sizes kept.
A cutter does not follow a picture, it follows a drawing. The DXF is that drawing.
The file is written as R12, the oldest and most widely supported version of the format. LightBurn, AutoCAD, Fusion 360, Inkscape, RDWorks, VCarve and most other laser and CNC programs open it without a plugin or an import dialog full of questions.
A round hole is exported as a circle, not as a polygon that looks round from a distance. Straight lines stay lines, and curves are followed to within 0.01 mm, far finer than any cutter can resolve.
Every colour in the artwork becomes its own layer, named after the colour. That is what lets you give the black layer a cut setting and the red layer an engrave setting in your laser software, without selecting anything by hand.
A DXF has no pixels, so the scale has to come from the file itself — and it does.
Pick the unit your machine expects. Millimetres suit most laser cutters, inches are common on shop machines that work in fractions, and pixels are handy when the artwork came from a screen design.
The width and height written in the SVG set the physical size of the drawing. A file drawn at 120 mm wide cuts at 120 mm, whatever units you export in — the unit choice only changes how the numbers are written down.
The drawing is flipped the way CAD expects, so the origin sits in the right corner and Y grows upwards. What you see in your editor is where the head goes on the bed.
A DXF holds geometry only, so anything that is not an outline cannot come along.
Live text has no paths, and a cutter has nothing to follow. Run "convert text to outlines" (also called "convert to paths" or "flatten text") in your editor, save the SVG and convert again. The letters then arrive as shapes you can cut.
A bitmap inside the SVG cannot become cut lines, so it is left out and you are told it was. Redraw it as paths, or trace it into a vector first.
Starting from a PNG or a photo? Turn a raster image into an SVG first with logo to vector, or with the image to SVG converter on the home page — then bring the result back here for the DXF.
Three steps, no account and nothing to install.
Drop the file onto the box, click it to browse, or paste straight from the clipboard with Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on a Mac). Files up to 25 MB are fine.
Choose millimetres, inches or pixels — whichever the cutting software expects — and check that the drawing is the size you want on the bed. The page keeps circles round and follows curves to within 0.01 mm.
Open the file in your cutting software, assign a cut or engrave setting per layer, and run the job. Nothing else needs converting in between.
A clean DXF starts with a tidy SVG, and one or two habits save a wasted sheet of material.
Layers follow the colours in the artwork, so set them deliberately before converting: one colour for the parts you cut out, another for the parts you score or engrave. Two named layers are easier to work with than a dozen shades of grey.
Measure the width the SVG declares and compare it with your material. If you only have a viewBox, set an explicit width and height in your editor — machining a job at ten times the intended size wastes the sheet.
Merged, overlapping shapes become one outline and cut as one piece. Group or separate the parts you want cut individually, and remove hidden duplicates so the head does not trace the same line twice.
The DXF is written in R12, the version every cutting and CAD program still reads: LightBurn, AutoCAD, Fusion 360, Inkscape, RDWorks, VCarve, Carbide Create, QCAD and most laser or CNC software that accepts a DXF at all. If a program can import DXF, it can import this one.
Exactly the size the SVG declares. The width and height attributes of the document are what set the physical size, so a file drawn at 120 mm wide cuts at 120 mm. If the drawing only has a viewBox, one unit counts as a CSS pixel (1/96 inch) — set a real width and height in your editor to be sure.
Live text is not a shape, and a cutter can only follow outlines. Convert the text to paths in your editor first — Inkscape calls it "Object to Path", Illustrator "Create Outlines", Affinity "Convert to Curves" — then upload the SVG again. You will be told on screen whenever text was found and skipped.
Circles are exported as real circles, and straight lines as straight lines. Bézier curves are followed with short segments whose deviation stays within 0.01 mm, which is far below what a blade or a laser can resolve, so the finished edge looks smooth. The same applies to rounded corners and ellipses.
Files are processed on our server and not stored. The upload is converted as it arrives and only the resulting DXF is sent back to your browser, so nothing is kept afterwards and no account is tied to the conversion.
