Free welder SVG files

Drawing a weld that welders recognise

People who weld judge a bead by its ripples: even, overlapping crescents, often called a stack of dimes. Three designs here use that pattern: the heart with a seam down the middle, the straight bead and the monogram ring. The ripples are cut-outs about 2 mm wide when the design is 100 mm across, spaced about 6.5 mm apart, so they weed cleanly in vinyl from about 70 mm and engrave well on steel or acrylic at any size.

The helmet has a real window: the dark lens is a hole, so on a truck window or a tumbler the colour behind it shows through. For a tinted lens, use the layered helmet and cut the lens from green, blue or mirror vinyl.

Sparks, rods and thin parts

The welding rod on the electrode holder and the contact tip of the torch are the thinnest parts in the set, only 2 to 3 mm wide at 100 mm, and each carries a burst of sparks at its end. In vinyl keep those two designs at 80 mm or more and peel from the grip towards the sparks. In wood, choose the helmet, the heart or the cylinders, which have no long thin parts.

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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