Turn any photo into a machine-ready vector file — then laser cut, CNC route, vinyl cut, engrave or cut paper craft. PhotoCAD's clean line drawings drop into every digital fabrication tool.
Create line drawings ready to use in Cricut Design Space. Customize your designs with editable lines. Our file formats are accepted by every cutting tool — SVG, DXF and PDF.
Vinyl-cut your designs onto T-shirts, stickers and decals — share your creations with the world.
Engrave portraits and family photos into timeless objects.
Laser-cut your vector drawings into 3D materials and physical models.
Upload any photo — a reference image, a hand-drawn sketch, or a snap of a finished maker project you want to recreate.
PhotoCAD interprets the image and generates a clean vector line drawing — editable geometry, not a pixel-perfect trace.
Open in Cricut Design Space, LightBurn or any vector editor. Edit as you see fit, then send it to your machine.
Browse and download free vector files — every one generated by PhotoCAD.
Digital fabrication is the modern maker's workflow: a digital design, a vector file, and a machine that turns one into the other. Lasers, CNC routers, plasma tables, vinyl cutters, paper-craft cutters and engravers — Cricut, Silhouette, Glowforge, xTool and the rest — all read the same family of vector files — DXF for engineering, SVG for graphics, PDF for plotting. The bottleneck has always been getting the file: tracing a photo by hand in Illustrator or AutoCAD takes hours and produces inconsistent linework.
PhotoCAD removes that step. Upload a photo, and an AI model interprets it as a clean line drawing — not a pixel-perfect trace, but a sensible reinterpretation of the subject as something a machine can cut, engrave or print. The output is editable vector geometry: scale it, recolor it, separate it by layer, drop it straight into Cricut Design Space, LightBurn, VCarve, SheetCam or any vector editor.
The same file works across methods — engrave the line drawing into wood, vinyl-cut it onto a t-shirt, laser-cut it into 3D puzzle pieces. PhotoCAD shortens the path from idea to physical thing; the creative direction stays with you.
Best for
Makers, fab-lab members, small shops, Cricut and Silhouette users, laser-cutter owners, CNC hobbyists, vinyl crafters, engravers, and anyone whose workflow ends at a vector file going to a cutting, engraving or printing tool. Output formats — DXF, SVG, PDF — cover every digital fabrication machine on the market.
Upload any photo and get a clean vector file in under two minutes. Your first 3 conversions are free.
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