Your template, laid out on your roll, ready to cut.
AutoVectors Studio is free and runs in your browser. Open your template — one of ours, or any vector file you have — lay the parts out on your roll, edit what needs it, and export a cut file or send the job to the plotter (beta). Nothing to install, no account — free because we sell templates, not software. The one optional download is the AutoVectors Bridge, a small Windows helper for sending to a USB plotter.
Best on a laptop or a shop computer; fully usable by touch too, node editing included, on an Android tablet or phone.
No subscription. No lock-in. Your files stay yours.
Opens SVG, PDF, DXF, AI, EPS and PLT ·
PNG or JPG to trace over
A full vehicle kit on four worksheets. Each worksheet is one plotter run.
No file with you? Open the demo kit loads a real 54-part vehicle template.
From the file you downloaded to the file your plotter cuts — or to the plotter itself.
Your template is drawn like the car. Your roll is a straight strip. Getting one onto the other is the only job Studio does.
The Skoda Kodiaq 2024 demo template built into Studio, with the preview panel on the right.
First picture: 14 seconds in, best so far 4 sheets and 1370.16 cm, redrawn live. Second: the finished layout, 4 sheets and 13.43 m, with the chip suggesting 460 cm sheets for 3 runs.
Mid-run on the 4-sheet layout: the bar reads Shaking — 13.43 m · Stop keeps 13.42 m, Keep and Stop beside it.
First picture: blocked — sheet 1 of 4 needs 1474.6 mm, the plotter reads 667.8 mm, the overflow is drawn red and the card offers Re-nest at 662 mm. Second: after that re-nest, sheet 1 of 5 needs 656.8 mm, Fits with 11 mm to spare, and Cut sheet 1 on Graphtec CE7000 is live. Eight of the 54 parts are wider than 662 mm at any angle and were left out, so 46 parts remain. A stand-in answered as the plotter; no film was cut.
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, not in the file it exports.
What Studio does.
Every one of these exists because of something that happens on a real install. The editing tools get a closer look below.
No minimum spec
The search uses every core your computer has. An older shop laptop searches slower, but nothing refuses to run.
Roll width and working width
Pick 12, 24, 36, 48 or 60 inches, or type your own in mm, cm or inches. Roll width and working width are set separately.
Add material
Wrap allowance where you want it: one edge, a marked stretch of an edge, or the whole outline.
Relief cuts
Cut a part in two with a straight line, snapped to its centre if you want it symmetrical, so an oversized panel goes on in two pieces.
Shape work
Move nodes and handles, add a node, change one corner's radius, straighten a tilted part, thin out nodes, or merge parts into one.
Nothing is destroyed
Every step undoes. Any part goes back to the shape it had in the file, and the Ghost switch draws that outline under every part you changed.
Draw your own shapes
Drop in a photo or scan, set its real size, and draw over it with the pen. The piece no template covers becomes a part like any other.
Measure on screen
Drag between two points and read the distance in millimetres or inches. A ruler can be locked in place while you work.
Save the job, come back
A job saves as one small file you keep. Open it tomorrow and the layout, the roll width and every edit are where you left them.
Gravity
Tip the layout on its side and let real physics settle it, your gap kept in every frame. Stop returns the best valid layout; Keep takes the frame you see.
Send to plot (beta)
One press sends a worksheet to the plotter as the same HPGL the download makes. The width is checked first, too wide is blocked, and you confirm before the blade moves.
Pick the parts you need
A template opens in a preview panel first. Add one part, several, or the whole kit to the roll.
The tools, up close.
Sooner or later every template needs a small adjustment — more film on a door edge, a cleaner curve, an emblem cutout removed. Nearly all of it starts with right-click a part → Edit shape (nodes); tools 03 and 04 live inside that mode. Click any screenshot to see it full size.
First: open the shape.
Right-click a part and choose Edit shape (nodes). Edit mode opens and every node appears — 49 on the panel in the picture — and tools 03 and 04 only work inside it. Drag a node, pull its handles to bend the curve, add a point, delete one. Double-click a contour to take the whole loop, so an emblem cutout comes off in one motion: double-click, Del.
Top: the right-click menu on a 121.09 × 39.01 cm panel. Bottom: the same part in node mode, 49 nodes, 1 selected, the dragged node showing its two handles.
Fewer nodes. The same shape.
A bumper strip, 131.88 × 29.99 cm: 258 → 143 nodes (−45%) ±0.33 mm, Keep shape on, not applied yet.
Vector templates — traced ones especially — often carry far more nodes than the shape needs. Reduce nodes (N on the rail) re-fits the curve with fewer points instead of deleting them, and shows the node count and the worst deviation in millimetres live. In the picture a bumper strip comes down from 258 nodes to 143, −45%, and the outline moves by at most ±0.33 mm. Keep shape holds every corner and caps the drift at 0.4 mm; untick it and the outline may move tens of millimetres, which is not a cut-accurate result, and Studio says so. It is the same clean-up AutoVectors runs on its own templates before they ship.
One click finds the edge.
Still in edit mode. Click once on a part's edge and Studio selects the whole side it belongs to — a door's shut line, the front lip of a hood. Then the Add material row: +3, +5 or +10 mm, or your own figure up to 100 mm, and Apply. The added film draws in green with the amount on it; what you see is what the plotter gets. Double-click a contour instead for material all the way round.
Top: one click on the bottom edge and the whole side lights up — side selected. Bottom: +10 mm along that side only; the panel reads 40.01 cm where it read 39.01.
Exactly from here to there.
When the piece you want is not a whole side, mark it yourself: in edit mode press Mark a stretch…, then click the line where the material starts and click where it ends. Only that run highlights. Add material to it the same way, and the rest of the edge stays exactly as drawn.
Top: about 45 cm of the 121 cm top edge marked — marked stretch. Bottom: +10 mm along that run only; the part is 40.02 cm tall there and the rest of the edge untouched.
No template? Draw one.
Import a PNG or JPG — a photo of the panel, or a scan — set its real size, dim it, and lock it. Then draw over it: click places a corner, click-and-drag pulls a curve, Ctrl holds a straight line. Close the shape on its first point and it is a part like any other. Overlapping shapes weld into one with right-click → Merge. The photo never reaches the plotter — only the lines you drew.
Drawing over a backdrop sized to 60 × 40 cm and dimmed — a plain test image here. Top: four anchors placed, the second pulled into a curve. Bottom: all seven placed, one click from closing.
Group it, and the nest respects it.
No edit mode needed. Select parts and group them — Ctrl+G, or Group in the right-click menu — and autonest treats the group as one rigid unit: a bumper with its sensor trims, a left–right pair, kept in formation while everything else nests around them. Ctrl+Shift+G ungroups. Studio draws no outline around a group; clicking any member selects them all.
The first cut on a new plotter is a test square.
On a plotter this browser has not cut with, the plotter screen opens as Step 1 of 2 — test square: Studio cuts one 100 × 100 mm square before any real job, and the preview says plainly that it is the square, not your layout. Measure it. Both sides 100 mm means the plotter's command mode, step size and origin are what the file assumes. If you have cut with this plotter before, a skip button takes you straight to your sheet. Then Step 2 of 2 — your sheet.
The picture is the job as the machine sees it, drawn from the bytes it will receive: what the plotter can cut is the frame, what this sheet needs is the band inside it, and anything past the edge is red.
Stop halts what Studio is still sending; what the plotter already holds, it keeps cutting unless you pause it on its panel. Graphtec CE / FC owners: set COMMAND to HP-GL or AUTO — Cutting Master uses GP-GL, so check it after using that — with ORIGIN lower left and MIRROR off.
Top: Step 1 of 2 on a new plotter — the 100 × 100 mm square beside the origin, with the skip button. Bottom: Fit sheet — the whole 3.3 m sheet 1 of 5 as a strip against the right edge, 1 px = 6.3 mm, Cut enabled.
Which file to send your cutting software.
Your files are normal vector files — they always were.
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. Or skip the file: Send to plot sends the same HPGL straight to the plotter — beta, proved on a Graphtec CE7000 over USB.
If you want to check your exact machine:
| Cutting software | Comes with | Send it this |
|---|---|---|
| Send to plot (beta) | Studio itself, in Chrome, Edge or Firefox | HPGL straight to the plotterNo file and no cutting software. Proved on a Graphtec CE7000 over USB in HP-GL mode; any other USB or Windows-printer cutter is offered the same bytes, and the 100 mm test square shows whether it takes them. Silhouette, Cricut and Brother are refused by name. |
| 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 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 imports as BMP, JPG, STX and Illustrator AI/EPS version 8; Studio writes its EPS in that flavour. |
| Mimaki FineCut9 | Mimaki, plug-in | via Illustrator / CorelDRAWRuns inside Illustrator or CorelDRAW, not 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. |
Every AutoVectors template ships as CDR, AI, PDF and SVG; most also include DXF, and the product page lists what is in yours. If you work in CorelDRAW or Illustrator, keep working there. If you own neither, you do not need to buy either.
Load the SVG, PDF, DXF or AI from your download. Studio reads .ai files saved with PDF content and native .ai files, and opens .eps, .plt, and PNG or JPG to trace over. It cannot open .cdr — CorelDRAW's own format, which no browser can read — and says so plainly instead of half-importing it.
Import lists change between versions and licence tiers, so check your software's documentation. Craft cutters take material about 30 cm (12 in) wide — headlight, pillar and handle-cup pieces rather than a full hood. If your cutter's software is not on this list, send it PLT first and SVG second, and write to us if neither works. Whatever you use, cut the 100 × 100 mm calibration square and measure it first.
What you keep.
Studio is a convenience, never a lock. Here is 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. Nothing on this page switches off later.
Free
No account, no login, no licence key, no dongle, no machine registration, no paid tier and no time limit.
The work happens on your machine
Your file opens on your computer and every bit of the geometry work runs there — the layout never waits on our servers. We collect the files you open, export and save, and basic technical details about them, to help us improve Studio.
No limits
No job quotas, no metered parts, no counter with a paid tier waiting behind it. Cut as much film as you like.
Nothing to install for the editor
Windows or Mac, in the browser you already have; a new version is simply there next time. The one optional download is the AutoVectors Bridge, a 10.7 MB Windows helper for sending a job to a USB plotter; Download works without it.
Latest updates →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
Studio takes no ownership of anything you open or draw, and nothing you make in it depends on us afterward. A file only ever becomes a template with your say-so — each import asks separately, and unticked means no.
Open your own template, or load the built-in vehicle kit — nest it, export the files and judge them yourself.