Free pencil SVG files

How the point holds together

On a real pencil the wood of the point is pale, between the painted body and the dark lead. Here the wood is an open window, so whatever is underneath shows through as the pale colour. Two thin sides of the cone run past the window and hold the lead to the body. On the slanted pencil those sides are about 2.3 mm wide when the file is 100 mm across, which is fine in vinyl and card at 60 mm or more.

In wood or acrylic the point is the part that snaps, so cut pencils at 120 mm or longer, or choose the fat pencil for a name or the short stub, whose parts are much heavier for their length.

Pencils for names and classrooms

Two pencils are made for lettering: the fat pencil has a plain side with no facet lines, and the split pencil opens along its length to take a name between the halves. The pencil ring leaves a round space for an initial. For a yellow pencil with a pink eraser, cut the design twice and keep the eraser from the pink sheet, trimming it off at the ferrule.

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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