Free diamond SVG files

Two kinds of diamond

People search for a diamond and mean one of two things: the cut gemstone, with its flat table, wide girdle and pointed base, or the plain four-sided shape from a pack of cards. This set has both. The gems come as a solid silhouette, as a line drawing, and with the facets cut as slits, which is the version that works best in a single colour of vinyl because it shows the cut and still lifts in one piece.

On the diamond with facet cuts the slits are about 2 mm wide at the full 100 mm size. Scale it down and the slits scale too: below about 40 mm across they get hard to weed in vinyl and may close up when lasered, so switch to the solid silhouette at small sizes. The line drawings have lines of 2 to 3.5 mm at 100 mm and suit pen plotters and foil.

Patterns and panels

The harlequin, argyle and diamond plate designs are square panels 100 mm on a side. Cut them as stencils, or tile them in your software to cover a larger area. Each has its own border, so tiled copies show a frame round every tile: overlap the borders if you want the pattern to run on.

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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