Free light bulb SVG files

Clear bulbs and solid bulbs

There are two ways to cut a light bulb. A clear bulb has the glass as a slim band with the filament drawn inside it, so the backing shows through like real glass. A solid bulb is a filled pear with the filament or a highlight cut out of it. The clear bulbs look finer but have thinner parts: the filament wires are about 2.4 mm wide when the bulb is 100 mm tall, so cut them at 80 mm or more. The solid bulbs and the simple icon can go much smaller.

For a bulb that looks lit, cut a solid bulb in yellow or use the layered bulb, and put the rays round it in the same colour.

Rays are loose pieces

Rays of light do not touch the bulb, so on the glowing bulb and the cute bulb they are separate pieces. Lift the whole design with transfer tape and they keep their places. If you are cutting card or wood and would rather have one piece, use the light bulb moment, where the bulb is a hole in a spiky burst, or leave the rays off.

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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