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Ready to cut it, but it is a PNG?

A cutting machine follows an outline, not a picture. Vectron turns the image into clean, closed SVG shapes you can upload to your cutting software — free, in this tab, with nothing sent anywhere.

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Vectron's split view in B/W: flat artwork on the left, a single-colour traced cut shape on the right

Why a cutter cannot use your PNG

A blade follows a path. A PNG has no paths in it — it is a grid of coloured dots, and no amount of importing turns those into a line for the machine to travel along.

Vectron traces the picture into closed SVG shapes, which is the format cutting software reads. Vectron is not Cricut software and does not pretend to be: it produces the vector file, and you take it into whichever tool drives your machine.

From picture to cut file

Five steps, and the middle three are all about throwing away detail you cannot cut.

Start tracing
  1. 1
    Add the image
    PNG, JPEG, GIF, WEBP or BMP. Simple, high-contrast artwork cuts far better than a busy one.
  2. 2
    Switch to B/W
    Under What should come out. This traces one solid shape rather than colour layers — a blade has no use for colour.
  3. 3
    Raise Ignore tiny specks
    Every speck becomes a tiny closed path, and a tiny closed path becomes a cut. This is the single most useful control on this page.
  4. 4
    Drop the background
    So the shape is a cut-out rather than a rectangle with a picture inside it.
  5. 5
    Download and import
    A plain SVG, ready to upload into your cutting software.

Cutting a shape that is actually cuttable

Tiny detail is the enemy
What looks like texture on screen becomes dozens of separate cuts, and material tears where the pieces get thin. Push Ignore tiny specks up until the small stuff disappears.
One colour, one layer
B/W gives you a single shape. If you want a layered cut in several materials, trace in Full colour instead and expect to separate the layers in your cutting software.
Simplify before you cut, not after
Fewer colours and a smoother edge give you fewer, longer paths. That is a faster, cleaner cut and a file your cutting software will not choke on.
Check it at 400% before committing material
A trace that looks fine at page size can carry wobble along every edge. Zoom in and compare against the original before you feed in vinyl or cardstock.

Still wondering?

Vectron produces a plain SVG of filled paths, which is the format cutting software generally imports. It does not talk to any machine itself, and it does not set cut lines, mats or materials — that all happens in the software that drives the cutter.

B/W for a single-material cut: it traces one solid shape instead of coloured layers. Full colour if you plan to cut several materials and separate the layers yourself afterwards.

Because the trace kept detail the blade cannot. Raise Ignore tiny specks, lower the colour count, and the small fragments merge into the shapes around them.

You can trace one, but a photograph rarely cuts well — there is no clean silhouette for a blade to follow. High-contrast artwork, lettering and simple shapes are what this workflow is for.

No. The tracer runs in your browser, so the file never leaves your machine. Once the page has loaded you can go offline and it still works.

Bringing something else to Vectron?

Image to vector for vinylLogo to SVGAI image to SVG

Got that file open in another tab?

Drag it over. Worst case you’ve lost ten seconds and learned what your artwork looks like in vectors.

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