Etsy cut file maker
Open any successful Etsy cut-file listing and you will see the same promise in the description: SVG, PNG, DXF and PDF included. Buyers expect the bundle because they do not know which machine the file will meet — a Cricut, a Silhouette on the free Basic edition, a print shop. Making that bundle by hand means converting the same design four times in four tools and praying the sizes agree. The Etsy Bundle button above builds all four formats from one trace, in one ZIP, with clean file names your buyers can actually understand.
It starts like any conversion: drop in a PNG or JPG, pick the Cut File preset, and clean up before you export. Specks smaller than a sensible cut width get flagged by the cut-file check — those are the pieces that generate one-star reviews when they fail to weed on a buyer's machine.
The formats are chosen for coverage, not decoration. SVG serves Cricut Design Space and Silhouette Designer Edition. DXF serves Silhouette Basic, which cannot open SVG at all — leave DXF out of your listing and every Basic user is a refund request. The transparent PNG doubles as your listing preview and serves print-then-cut buyers, and the PDF covers print shops and buyers who archive designs on paper. All four come from the same vector, at the same physical size you set in the panel.
Quality is the other half of a listing that ranks. Veclyra shows you the path and node counts before you bundle — a clean four-colour design should sit in the low hundreds of nodes — and the palette panel lets you merge stray colours and delete specks of noise. The output SVG is plain on purpose: no CSS, no masks, no embedded bitmap, no strokes in cut mode, so it opens cleanly in Design Space instead of exploding into a thousand layers.
And it is all local. Your design files are traced in your browser and never uploaded, which matters when the design is the product you are selling.
FAQ
What is inside the Etsy Bundle ZIP?
Four files from one trace: a plain grouped SVG, a transparent 4500×5400 PNG, a DXF at your set physical size for Silhouette Basic, and a PDF — all with clean, matching file names.
Why include DXF if I already include SVG?
Silhouette Studio Basic cannot open SVG files. DXF is the format Basic users can open, so including it removes the most common 'file won't work' complaint.
How do I stop tiny pieces ruining my reviews?
Use the Cut File preset and its check: pieces below your minimum cut width are highlighted and can be auto-cleaned before you bundle.