Free fence SVG files

Pickets, rails and open gaps

A fence is the easiest thing in the world to cut badly: draw the pickets as separate strips and they scatter the moment you lift them. In these files every picket is welded to two rails, so the gaps between the pickets are true openings and the run comes off the mat in one piece. The pickets are 6 to 9 mm wide when the fence is 100 mm long and the rails about 5 mm deep, which is sturdy in card, vinyl, felt and 3 mm wood.

The two iron designs are finer. The bars of the iron gates and the spooky fence are between 2 and 3 mm wide at 100 mm, and the strands of barbed wire about 2 mm. Cut those at 120 mm or longer in card, and at 200 mm or more in wood or acrylic.

Making a longer fence

The picket fence and the lattice panel are drawn to repeat. To fence the bottom of a long sign or a mantel scene, place two copies of the picket fence side by side so the end pickets overlap exactly, then weld them: the spacing carries on unbroken. The fence silhouette, the wooden fence and the fence with sunflowers have flat feet and work as the front layer of a paper scene or shadow box.

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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