PNG to DXF free, transparent PNG supported

1. Drop your PNG into the box above (up to 20 MB). Black & white mode is already selected.
2. Type the width you want the cut to be, in mm. The empty margin around the shape does not count.
3. Check the preview, download the DXF, open it in LightBurn, LibreCAD, Fusion, AutoCAD or your machine software, and cut.

Every shape becomes a closed polyline on a layer called CUT, and the holes inside letters and shapes are their own closed outlines, so a laser cuts the inside of an “O” as well as the outside. The DXF is set to millimetres and the drawing starts at 0,0. A DXF is made of lines, not pixels, so you can scale it in your cutting software without it getting blurry.

A transparent PNG is the easiest input there is. The parts of the image that are see-through count as background and get no outline, so a logo, icon, sticker or cut-out comes out as exactly its own shape. A PNG with a plain white or coloured background also works: if the edges of the picture are one even colour, that colour is treated as the background.

• Logo with a transparent background: the opaque shape becomes the outline, holes included.
• Photo of a product or pet on a busy background: tick Remove the background first, so only the subject is traced.
• Always check the preview before you cut: what is black there is what becomes a shape.

A DXF for cutting is one colour of outlines, so the image is first turned into black and white. Logos, text, silhouettes, stencils, signs, icons and line drawings convert cleanly, so this works as a general image to DXF converter for any PNG. A photo turns into a stencil of its dark areas, which can look great on wood or metal but has many small outlines and may be too complex to cut well.

If the result looks empty, the tool says so instead of giving you a blank file. Try an image with a clearer shape against its background, or tick the background removal for a photo.

Yes, and for a cutting job it is usually faster here. In AutoCAD, Inkscape, Illustrator, Fusion 360 or SolidWorks you trace the picture by hand, clean up the nodes and export, and a PNG that is only pixels has no outlines to start from. This free PNG to DXF converter online does the tracing for you in the browser, with nothing to install, and gives you the DXF to open in whatever program you already use.

This is tracing, not AI drawing: the outlines follow the shapes that are really in your PNG, so the result is as good as the picture. Black and white logos, silhouettes and bold shapes trace best; thin, fuzzy or very detailed images give rougher outlines. A DXF is a vector file made of lines, which is what a laser or CNC machine reads, and it is not the same as DWG; most cutting software opens DXF directly, so for these machines it is the file to pick.

10 images a day are free (shared with the background remover on this site, reset at midnight), no account and no watermark; a ShinobiTools pass raises it (up to 50 a day). Files up to 20 MB and 30 megapixels, traced at up to 2048 pixels. Your PNG is deleted as soon as the result is sent back.

Starting from a JPG? JPG to DXF is the same tool. Only need a vector for print or the web? PNG to SVG and Image to SVG keep the colours. Need the transparent PNG first? Use the background remover.