DXF to SVG converter

To convert DXF to SVG, drop the DXF into the converter above, check the size, and download the SVG. Each layer becomes a group in its colour, arcs and circles stay exact arcs, splines and blocks come out at true scale, and the SVG's width and height carry real units, so Inkscape, Cricut Design Space, Glowforge or a browser shows it at the size it was drawn.

What survives the conversion

Lines that meet end to end are joined into single paths, so an outline drawn as forty separate segments becomes one closed shape that a cutter or a fill can use. Entities on hidden or frozen layers stay hidden, as they are in CAD.

Scale and units

A DXF stores plain numbers, and its $INSUNITS header says what they mean: 1 for inches, 4 for millimetres, and so on. The converter reads it and writes the SVG's width and height in millimetres or inches, with a viewBox in millimetres that fits the drawing exactly. When a file has no units, it is read as millimetres and the tool says so above the preview. Switch Drawing units to cm or in if a part measures wrong.

Lines are drawn 1 px wide with a non-scaling stroke, so they stay thin at any zoom in browsers and in Inkscape, which has supported non-scaling strokes since version 0.92. Cricut Design Space imports every vector as a cut line whatever its width.

Using the SVG

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload on the design panel, then Upload Image and Browse. SVGs keep their size and are limited to 5,000 paths.
• Glowforge: in the app, choose Create a new design, then Upload a file. SVG works on every plan; DXF needs Premium.
• Inkscape: open the SVG and each DXF layer appears as an Inkscape layer with its original name.
• LightBurn and xTool Studio import DXF directly, so convert only when you need an SVG for something else.
• The web: the file is plain SVG, ready for an img tag or inline markup.

Checked against Cricut's, Glowforge's and Inkscape's own documentation in October 2026.

Other ways to convert DXF to SVG

Inkscape opens DXF files itself: choose File, Open, and pick the AutoCAD DXF R13 (*.dxf) type. Its import dialog asks for a Method of Scaling (Manual scale, Automatic scaling to size A4, or Read from file). Its help says manual scaling assumes the drawing is in millimetres, and that layers are kept only with File, Open, not with Import. Save the result as SVG.

To go the other way, the SVG to DXF converter turns artwork into CAD files with exact arcs and real units. For joints that fit, measure your kerf with the laser kerf calculator, and for 3D models use the STL to SVG converter.