If you arrived here from Facebook or Etsy, please be sure to visit our store! Use code WELCOME10 for 10% off your first order. I only use Silhouette Studio to test DXF files before I post them for sale, and they always work fine whenever I converty and SVG to a DXF in Inkscape. Another box pops up and I do NOT change any of the defaults that Inkscape has here. The box to save your file to your computer will pop up (I use Windows, it may differ with other systems) - where it says 'Save as Type' click on the arrow to get the drop down menu and choose Desktop Cutting Plotter (.dxf) and click SAVE. Once the file is open, make sure it is selected (bounding box with little arrows pointing inward) and then go to FILE > SAVE AS. Next, open Inkscape, and go to FILE > IMPORT.

Ok - so you have your SVG file and you have Inkscape.

As opposed to DXF, SVG is an open format which can readily be transferred between multiple. Inkscape is free, and often used instead of Adobe Illustrator to edit vector files. SVG allows for art/designs to scale without loss of fidelity. You can easily convert an SVG to a DXF for free with Inkscape. I tried saving as svg first then save as dxf but I get the save result every time. I tried fill and stroke together, fill no stroke, stroke no fill. While all of our sets come with both SVG and DXF files, you may have some SVG files that you need to convert to a DXF file, especially if you use the free Silhouette Studio software that only accepts DXF files. Inkscape uses SVG as its native file format, but it can also export files in EPS, PDF, GIMP (.xcf), Adobe Illustrator (.ai), and AutoCAD (.dxf) formats. I open the png file in Insckape, trace it and save it as dxf but when I open it in CamBam I get double lines no matter what I try.

Inkscape svg to dfx