SVG sizes and file limits

On Cricut Maker and Explore machines a 12 × 12 in mat cuts up to 11.5 × 11.5 in (292 mm) and a 12 × 24 in mat up to 11.5 × 23.5 in. Joy mats cut 4.25 in wide, the Joy Xtra mat 8.25 × 11.75 in and Venture mats 23.5 in by 11.5 or 27.5 in. Design Space only offers mats bigger than the largest image in your project.

Cut a side-fold card twice as wide as the finished card. A 4.25 × 5.5 in card (A2) is cut 8.5 × 5.5 in, half a letter sheet, and goes in a 4.375 × 5.75 in A2 envelope. A 5 × 7 in card (A7) goes in a 5.25 × 7.25 in envelope. An A6 card, 105 × 148 mm, is cut from A5 and fits a C6 envelope, 114 × 162 mm.

65 lb cardstock is 176 gsm, 80 lb is 216 gsm and 100 lb is 270 gsm; Cricut calls them light, medium and heavy and puts them on the blue, green and purple mats. Those pounds are cover weights: a 65 lb text paper is only 96 gsm. To convert, multiply cover pounds by 2.7 or text pounds by 1.48.

Kerf is the width of material the laser burns away, so a cut piece comes out one kerf smaller than drawn and a hole one kerf bigger. Cut a 20 mm square and measure the piece: if it is 19.8 mm, the kerf is 0.2 mm. Offset outlines by half the kerf to get exact parts. No number fits every machine and material, so measure yours.

Design Space refuses an SVG with more than 5,000 paths and takes DXF only on Windows and Mac. Silhouette Studio needs Designer Edition or above to open an SVG and Business Edition to save one. Glowforge takes DXF only for Premium members, and Canva wants an SVG under 3 MB. Count the paths before you upload.

Avery 5160 address labels are 2⅝ × 1 in (66.7 × 25.4 mm), 5163 shipping labels 4 × 2 in (101.6 × 50.8 mm) and 22807 round labels 2 in (50.8 mm) across. For a cut label, measure the flat face of the jar, lid or bin first, and choose a label a few millimeters smaller than that face.

A straight cup’s wrap is a rectangle: π × the diameter wide (75 mm gives 235.6 mm) and as tall as the part you cover. A tapered cup unrolls into a curved band: for 90 mm across the top, 60 mm across the bottom and 100 mm tall, the band’s outer radius is 303.4 mm, its inner radius 202.2 mm and it spans 53.4°. Measure the cup, not its ounces.

Cricut colors its mats by grip: blue LightGrip for office paper, light cardstock and vellum; green StandardGrip for medium cardstock, vinyl and iron-on; purple StrongGrip for heavy, glitter and specialty cardstock and chipboard; pink FabricGrip for fabric with the Rotary or Bonded-Fabric Blade. Cardstock cuts with the Fine Point blade that comes in the machine. Joy machines take LightGrip and StandardGrip only.