Free dice SVG files

Six-sided dice

A die seen corner-on shows three faces, and on a one-colour cut the edges between them have to be drawn somehow. Here they are cut lines that run out from the near corner and stop just short of the outline, so the three faces stay joined round the rim. The pips are holes, squashed so they lie flat on each face. On the pair of dice a pip is about 5 mm across when the design is 100 mm wide, so cut it at 70 mm or more in vinyl.

The six faces are flat squares with round pips and are the ones to use for making dice: scale a face to the side of your wooden block and cut six in vinyl, or cut them as stencils and paint through the holes.

Many-sided dice

The four, ten, twelve and twenty-sided dice are drawn from their true corners and edges, as each looks with one face towards you. The faces are left blank on purpose: numerals depend on a typeface and are fiddly to weed. If you want the famous twenty on the front triangle, type it in your own font and place it in the middle. The outline versions suit engraving and pen plotting, and the solid ones suit vinyl and iron-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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