Your template, laid out on your roll, ready to cut.
AutoVectors Studio is a free tool that runs in your browser. Open your template — one of ours, or any vector file you already have — move the parts to fit your roll, and export a file ready for your plotter. Nothing to install, no account, and your file never leaves your computer. It is free because we sell templates, not software.
Opens SVG, PDF, AI and PLT. From an AutoVectors download, use the SVG or the PDF.
No file with you right now? Open the demo kit starts Studio with a real 54-part vehicle template already on the roll. Nothing to download, nothing to sign up for.
Studio needs a laptop or a shop computer — a phone screen cannot hold a 152 cm roll. Reading this on your phone? Send yourself the link and open it at the machine.
A full vehicle kit packed onto four worksheets. Each worksheet is one plotter run.
From the file you downloaded to the file your plotter cuts.
Your template is drawn like the car. Your roll is a straight strip. Getting one onto the other is the step between buying the file and cutting it, and it is the only job Studio does.
The Skoda Kodiaq 2024 demo template built into Studio — the same one the demo button loads. 54 parts, exactly as the file was drawn.
Every number on that line updates live: layouts tried, sheets used, material consumed, and how full the roll is.
Holes stay attached to their parts the whole way through. A sensor cutout belongs to the bumper piece it came from, and Studio never separates them — not on import, not through nesting, and not in the file it exports.
What Studio does.
A short list rather than a feature dump. Every one of these exists because of something that happens on a real install.
Autonest
Studio packs the parts against their real outlines, not against boxes drawn around them, using every processor core your computer has. You watch the layout get tighter and stop it whenever you are happy. An older shop laptop searches slower and settles on a slightly looser layout — it does not refuse to run, and there is no minimum spec.
Roll width and working width
Set your roll width, then set your working width separately. The pinch rollers take a few centimetres off each edge, and no part is ever nested where the wheels sit. Pick 12, 24, 36, 48 or 60 inches, or type your own width in millimetres, centimetres or inches. The rulers switch between centimetres and inches whenever you want.
Add material
Click one edge of a part — a door edge, a fender arch — and add 3, 5 or 10 mm of wrap allowance. The film you added shows in green, with the amount written on it.
Relief cuts
Cut a part in two with a straight line, snapped to its exact centre if you want it symmetrical, so an oversized panel goes on in two pieces instead of fighting you.
Shape work
Move nodes and their handles, add a node, change the radius of one corner, straighten a part that was drawn on a tilt, or stretch it. Thinning nodes re-fits the curve instead of deleting points, so the shape stays where it was and the plotter runs a smoother line. It is the same method AutoVectors uses to prepare its own templates.
Nothing is destroyed
Every step undoes. Any part goes back to the shape it had in the file you opened, and that original outline can stay on screen as a dashed ghost while you work over it.
Your files are normal vector files. They always were.
Studio changes nothing about what you bought, and nothing you make in Studio depends on Studio afterward.
Every AutoVectors template ships as AI, CDR, SVG and PDF. If you work in CorelDRAW or Illustrator, keep working there. Those are excellent tools and everything you already know still applies. And if you own neither, you do not need to buy either. Studio alone takes you from the file you downloaded to the file your plotter cuts.
One practical note before you start: load the SVG or the PDF. Both are in your download, and both are formats a browser can read. Studio also opens .ai files saved PDF-compatible, and .plt. It cannot open .cdr — that is CorelDRAW's own format and no browser can read it — so Studio tells you that plainly instead of half-importing it and leaving you with a file you cannot trust. The AI and the CDR are for Illustrator and CorelDRAW, and nothing is missing from them.
Which file you export depends on what your cutting software reads. PLT/HPGL is what the plotters themselves speak and what professional sign packages expect. SVG is what most of the free software that ships with a cutter reads. EPS is what Roland's CutStudio takes. DXF is the fallback for CAD-style importers. Studio exports all four, so you are never on the wrong side of a format.
Not sure which to choose? Try PLT first — most plotter software reads it. If your software will not open it, send SVG. On a Roland, send EPS. Use DXF only if none of those work.
If you want to check your exact machine:
| Cutting software | Comes with | Send it this |
|---|---|---|
| Graphtec Studio 2 | Graphtec, free | SVGDXFGraphtec's published import list is AI, CDR, EPS, PDF, SVG, DXF and image formats. |
| Cutting Master 5 | Graphtec, free plug-in | via Illustrator / CorelDRAWA plug-in that works from inside Illustrator or CorelDRAW, so it opens whatever they open. |
| Summa GoSign | Summa, free | SVGSVG is in GoSign's standard import list. PLT and DXF import are Pro Pack features. |
| Roland CutStudio | Roland | EPSRoland lists CutStudio's import formats as BMP, JPG, STX and Illustrator AI/EPS version 8. Studio writes its EPS in that Illustrator 8 flavour, for exactly this case. |
| Mimaki FineCut9 | Mimaki, plug-in | via Illustrator / CorelDRAWRuns inside Illustrator or CorelDRAW rather than on its own. |
| CorelDRAW | bought separately | PLTSVGDXFEPSImports HPGL/PLT natively. |
| VinylMaster | third party | PLTSVGDXFLists .plt and .hpgl among its import formats at every tier. |
| Silhouette Studio | craft cutters | DXFDXF opens in the free Basic edition. SVG needs the paid Designer edition or above. |
| Cricut Design Space | craft cutters | SVGDXFDXF upload is desktop and web only, not the phone apps. |
| Brother CanvasWorkspace | craft cutters | SVGDXFDXF up to Release 14. Studio exports R12, comfortably inside that. |
Craft cutters take material about 30 cm (12 in) wide. They will handle a mirror, a handle cup or a headlight, but not a bonnet or a bumper. Studio exports for them too.
If the software that came with your cutter is not on this list, send it PLT first and DXF second. Almost all cutting software reads one of the two. If neither works, write to us with the name of the software and we will tell you what to send.
Import lists change between versions and licence tiers, so check your software's current documentation. Whatever you use, cut the 100 x 100 mm calibration square and measure it before you commit material.
What you keep.
Studio is a convenience layer, never a lock. It is worth being precise about what that means in practice.
Why it is free
We sell pre-cut templates, not software. Studio is here so the kit you bought gets onto your roll quickly — and an installer whose last job went well comes back for the next template. That is the whole business case. There is no paid tier, no trial period, and nothing on this page switches off later.
Free
No account, no login, no licence key, no dongle, no machine registration and no time limit.
Nothing is uploaded
Studio runs in your browser. Your file is read on your machine and the geometry work happens on your machine. There is no upload step, because there is nowhere to upload to.
Nothing is counted
Cut as much film as you like. Studio does not count your jobs, your parts or your metres. No monthly fee, no credits, nothing that runs out.
Nothing to install
Windows or Mac, in the browser you already have. Built for a laptop or a shop computer, where you have the screen space for a 152 cm roll.
The export is a normal file
It sits on your disk, it opens next year, and it does not stop working if you stop paying us — because there is nothing to pay.
Your templates are yours
We do not collect them, we do not build a library out of them, and we do not want them. Studio also opens files you drew yourself or bought elsewhere.
Open your own template, or load the built-in vehicle kit and use that. It opens with one click — nest it, export the files and judge them yourself.