Free tool SVG files

Tools for signs, shirts and Father’s Day

Tool designs get cut for workshop and garage signs, for shirts and mugs for the person who fixes everything, and for children’s rooms with a builder theme. The toolbox full of tools and the handyman’s fan are the two that work on their own. The set of five in a row makes a border along the top or bottom of a sign: at 100 mm wide each tool is about 57 mm tall.

The single tools are drawn so that they hold together when small. The hammer’s shaft, the screwdriver’s blade and the jaws of the pliers are all 4 mm wide or more at 100 mm, and the saw’s teeth are short and broad. Even so, in wood or acrylic keep single tools at 100 mm or more, because any long thin tool will snap across its narrowest part.

Blank spaces for your own words

The closed tool box has a plain lid and a plain front, the tape measure has no numerals on its tape, and the saw blade frame has an open middle about 67 mm across at 100 mm. All of them are left empty so that you can add a name, a date or a saying in your own lettering.

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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