Free phlebotomy SVG files

Needles drawn to be cut

A real needle is far too fine for a blade, so every needle here is drawn stouter than life: about 2.5 mm wide when the design is 100 mm across, with tubing about 3 mm. That is still the delicate part. Cut the butterfly needle, the tube holder and the needle decal at 90 mm or more in vinyl, weed towards the point of the needle and peel the transfer tape back along it, not across it. For wood or acrylic go to 150 mm, or pick a design with no needle.

The tubes are sturdy. On the blood tube with drops the glass walls are about 3 mm wide and the window above the blood and the blank label are simple openings, so it weeds in seconds. The heart with a tube, the cute blood drop and the tubes held by a band have nothing fine in them and work as 40 mm stickers.

Stopper colours and blank labels

Stopper colours mean something to anyone who draws blood, so the layered design uses three that are seen most often: lavender, red and light blue. Swap them for your own favourites in your cutting software. Labels are left blank on every tube so that you can add a name, initials or a date. The blood bag and the tube with drops come as loose pieces on purpose, since a drop that has fallen cannot be joined to anything.

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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