Quick Way to Upload Downloaded Svgs to Cricket

Follow this easy step-by-stride tutorial to acquire how to upload SVG files in Cricut Pattern Space and quickly start creating your own customized apparel, home decor, and more!

How to Upload SVG Files in Cricut Design Infinite

How to Upload SVG Files to Cricut Design Space

This piece of cake step-past-pace tutorial will walk yous through the process of uploading an SVG file to Cricut Design Space in but a few simple steps!

If yous're new to Cricut, y'all may also exist make new to Cricut Design Space, simply residuum bodacious that this tutorial is TOTALLY do-able for a complete beginner! Or, perchance you have spent some time playing around with the software and the images in Cricut Access, and you're set up to move on to the next level by importing your own custom SVG designs. Either style, we're here to assist walk yous through the process!

But first, what is an SVG file? And where do you get them?

You may accept seen graphics like the one above on Pinterest, Google, or other websites. The designs are fun (and oft FREE!), only what in the world IS an SVG file?

SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphic, and they're the preferred file format for working with Cricut Design Space and other cutting machine/design software. There are lots of technical reasons why SVGs are the best file blazon for the job, but simply put, they are the easiest for your machine (and You!) to work with (in the to the lowest degree amount of steps!).

Many bloggers offering free SVG files on their websites, and you tin find hundreds of thousands of additional inexpensive SVG files in online shops beyond many platforms. Some of my favorite places to find SVGs are:

Happiness is Bootleg SVG Library
Happiness is Homemade Shop
Hey, Let's Make Stuff
That's What Che Said (scroll to the lesser of the page for the SVG collection!)
Pineapple Newspaper Co.
My Designs in the Chaos (bank check out the FREEBIE page plus lots of files in the shop!)
Etsy (a recent search showed over 685k SVG files available on Etsy – WOW!)
Artistic Market place (bank check out their bundle deals for MAJOR savings!)
Pattern Bundles

Note: Most SVG files are more often than not downloaded as a ZIP file and volition need to exist unzipped and extracted earlier yous tin use them in Cricut Design Space. If y'all are trying to download a Naught file to your iPhone or iPad, please follow these instructions.

Make sure to salve the SVG file to a folder that y'all can easily discover again later! I recommend creating a folder specifically for your SVG files considering once you start using them, you're never going to stop!

How to Upload SVGs to Cricut Pattern Space

Annotation: There are ii different ways that yous tin can upload a file to the Cricut Design Infinite software – via computer desktop software or via tablet or telephone app. Because the screens vary between the desktop and app version of the software, nosotros are going to show you lot screenshots from both versions, and you lot can choose to follow the tutorial that is appropriate for your platform.

How to Upload an SVG File in Cricut Design Space Software (on computer)

Note: for this tutorial, nosotros are using our Costless Heartbreaker SVG file, available here!

First, open the Cricut Design Infinite software on your estimator (you may demand to create an account and download the software if this is your first time using it). In the lower left-hand corner of the screen, you will see an "Upload" icon. Click on the Upload icon to begin the procedure of uploading an SVG file.

A new screen will appear which displays your most recently uploaded images. Click on the "Upload Image" button in the top left-centre of the screen to upload a new file.

Click "Browse" to select the file from your calculator or but elevate and drop the file from your reckoner binder in to this window.

Note: in your computer's folder, your SVG files may announced with the icon of your web browser (for example, I was using Google Chrome for these screenshots, and the Heartbreaker Valentines Day SVG file is showing upwards in the folder with the Chrome icon) – don't worry, this is normal!

The next screen will give you a preview epitome of your SVG. Give your image a name and add whatsoever tags that y'all want (for example, this file might be tagged with "heart, Valentine, etc." Tags will assist you filter and sort your files later once yous've amassed a larger library of uploaded images). Click the dark-green "Save" button in the lower right-hand corner.

Now, your newly uploaded file volition appear in the "Recently Uploaded Images" gallery. Simply select the prototype (a green box volition announced around the paradigm) and click on the green "Insert Images" push button in the lower right-paw corner.

Your paradigm in on-screen and ready to be cutting! For more than data on how to utilize this SVG file to create your own shirts, check out this tutorial!

How to Upload an SVG File in the Cricut Design Space App (for Android and iOS devices)

Note: For this tutorial we are using our gratuitous "Pop, Clink, Kiss!" New year's day's Eve SVG file, bachelor hither.

If you don't yet have the Cricut Pattern Space app installed on your device, click here to download and install it and create a new user account. Open up the Cricut Design Space app, and click on the big blue "New Project" box in the upper left corner.

Click on the "Upload" icon in the lower left-paw side of the bottom menu bar, and the upload image menu box will popular upwards as shown above. Click "Browse Files" and select the SVG file from the advisable location on your phone or tablet.

A preview of the file volition appear in the center of your screen. Proper name the image and save the file.

The file will at present announced in your Uploaded Images panel. Merely select the file (a light-green box will appear around the image) and click on the "Insert" button in the lower correct-hand corner.