Free computer SVG files

Screens are windows

On the monitor, the computer icon and both laptops the screen is an opening, so whatever the decal is stuck to shows through as the picture. That makes them easy to weed and lets you put a word, a photograph or a second colour behind the screen. The designs with something on the screen work the other way round: the screen is solid and the window, the code or the heart is cut out of it or welded into it.

Sizes to know: the monitor is 100 mm wide with a bezel about 3.6 mm wide, and the laptop icon has a frame a little over 5 mm wide, so both hold together well in vinyl from about 50 mm wide. The open laptop has keys 4 to 5 mm wide and the desktop set has a keyboard with keys of about 3 mm, so cut those at 120 mm or more if you want the keys to weed cleanly. The silhouette has no holes at all.

Parts and old machines

The floppy disk, the mouse, the processor and the circuit board make a set of their own for a repair shop, a computer club or a teacher of computing. The circuit board motif has tracks about 2.3 mm wide at full size, which is fine in vinyl at 100 mm and better in card or acrylic at 150 mm. The retro computer and its layered version suit anyone who learned to type on a machine with a tube screen.

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.

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