Free submarine SVG files

A long thin boat with thin masts

A submarine is about six times as long as it is deep, so at 100 mm long the modern boat here is only about 40 mm tall from the tip of its periscope to its keel fin, and its hull is 14 mm deep. The masts on the sail are the thinnest parts at about 2 mm wide. They cut cleanly in vinyl from 80 mm long and in card from 100 mm. For wood or acrylic, cut the boat at 150 mm or more, or pick the cute submarine or the deep sea submersible, which have nothing thin on them.

On the submarine from the side the belly below the waterline is one long opening with a rim about 2 mm wide left all round it, so the hull stays whole and a red or grey card laid behind gives a two-colour boat. The five dots behind the sail are hatches about 2 mm across: weed them with a pin, or leave them in if you cut small.

Which submarine for which job

The silhouette and the boat on the surface are the two for layered scenes: one hangs in open water as a single clean shape, the other stands on the flat underside of its waves. The cute submarine and the porthole suit a nursery, a bath toy bag or an ocean party. The submarine with a blank hull takes a name about 60 mm long and 14 mm tall at 100 mm, for a retirement plaque or a model stand.

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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