Convert FCM to SVG (Beta)

An .fcm file is a Brother ScanNCut cut file, usually made in CanvasWorkspace or saved by the machine after scanning a design. Inkscape, Cricut Design Space and most cutting software cannot open it. Convert it to SVG here: you get the design at its real size, with every kind of line on a layer of its own, and a DXF of the same drawing.

How to convert FCM to SVG

1. Upload the .fcm file. Several files, or a .zip of a whole project, work too.
2. Check the preview: it shows the pieces where they sit on the mat.
3. Download the .svg. The .dxf comes with it, for CAD and laser programs.

What the SVG contains

• Millimetres. The SVG page is the cut area of the mat (296.7 × 298.8 mm for the 12 × 12 in mat, 296.7 × 603.6 mm for 12 × 24 in), so pieces keep their size and position.
• Layers. Cut lines, draw lines and rhinestones each get an Inkscape layer. Lines that the file marks as both cut and draw are on the cut layer, so nothing is drawn twice.
• One path per piece. Each piece of the design is one path on each layer, named after its label (A01, A02…) when CanvasWorkspace gave it one. Letters and shapes with holes stay together.
• Rhinestones become circles of the hole size stored in the file.

The result page also lists who made the file (CanvasWorkspace web, CanvasWorkspace for PC/Mac or a ScanNCut machine), the mat and a table of the pieces with their size and position.

Things to check

• Print-and-cut files store the cut lines and the registration marks, but not the picture that gets printed. The SVG shows the marks on their own layer; the picture has to come from the original project.
• Dashed pen lines: some CanvasWorkspace files store a dashed line as many short separate lines, and they arrive that way.
• Pieces outside the mat are kept: the SVG canvas grows to include them, and the result says so.

To go the other way, from an SVG to a ScanNCut file, see SVG to FCM.

More about what this tool reads and writes: Brother ScanNCut FCM Converter.