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Free beagle SVG files

Free beagle SVG files: a standing silhouette on a flat base, a sitting beagle, a face with the white blaze, a head in side view, a puppy, a heartbeat line, a peeking beagle, and versions with a heart, a bone, a paw print and a ring for an initial. All drawn by code as clean closed shapes.

13 designs. Free for personal and commercial use, no sign-up. What you can do with them.

Sizes, materials and the fine parts of a beagle

Every file is 100 mm on its longer side. What makes a beagle a beagle in outline is the ear and the tail: the ear hangs below the jaw as a round lobe, and the tail, which hound people call the stern, stands straight up. The tail is the slimmest part of the side views, about 4 mm across near its tip at full size, so in 3 mm plywood keep the standing silhouette at 100 mm or wider and run the grain up the tail if you can. In vinyl and card it cuts well down to about 40 mm.

The face, the puppy and the peeking beagle have the white blaze cut out as a window between the eyes, with the eyes, nose and mouth cut through as well. Cut these in a dark colour and put them on something pale, so the blaze shows white as it does on the dog. The slits that mark the ear, the mouth and the thigh on the sitting beagle are about 2 mm wide at full size: they weed with a pin in vinyl and come out as clean lines on a laser.

Which beagle for which job

The standing silhouette is cut level under the feet, so it sits flush on the floor of a shadow box or on a strip of ground. The heartbeat line is a long strip about twice as wide as it is tall, made for car windows and tumblers: cut it at 200 mm or longer so the trace stays strong. The bone under the sitting beagle is a blank name plate. The paw print badge is five loose pieces, so use transfer tape in vinyl or a backing sheet in card.

How to open the files

  • Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
  • Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
  • LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
  • Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
  • Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

Questions

How do I make a tricolour beagle?

Use the layered beagle face: cut the head from tan, the ears from a darker brown, the blaze and muzzle from white or cream, and the eyes, nose and mouth from black, then stack them in that order. For a side view, cut the standing silhouette from white, cut it again from tan and from black, and trim those copies to a patch over the head and a saddle over the back before you stick them on.

Can I put a name on the bone?

Yes. The bone under the sitting beagle is blank, and its shaft is about 17 mm tall at full size. Type a short name, size it to fit, and either cut it out of the bone or cut it from a second colour and stick it on top. Keep the letters at least 2 mm thick at the size you cut.

Which beagle is the easiest to cut small?

The standing silhouette. It has nothing inside to weed, and the ear and the upright tail still read at 40 mm wide in vinyl. The sitting beagle and the head in side view have fine slits for the eye, the mouth and the ear, so keep those at 60 mm or more.

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