Convert Old Silhouette .studio Files to SVG (Beta)

Before .studio3, Silhouette Studio saved designs as .studio. Many older design collections and blog downloads are still .studio files, and later versions of Silhouette Studio could save in that format too. This converter reads them and writes SVG and DXF files that today's cutting programs open.

How to convert a .studio file

1. Upload the .studio file, several of them, or the .zip you downloaded (the .studio files inside are found and converted; other files in the archive are ignored).
2. Keep Full design, or choose Cut lines only.
3. Download the SVG and DXF of each design, or all of them in one ZIP.

What is kept

• Shapes at their real size, in millimetres, including curves exactly as Silhouette stored them.
• Line and fill colours of each shape.
• Pictures saved in the file (older Print & Cut and traced designs often include one) are embedded in the SVG.
• Cut settings: shapes set to "No cut" are marked and left out of Cut lines only.

.studio files do not record which Silhouette Studio version saved them, so the result says ".studio (version 2 format)" instead of a version number.

Old files and the page

Old designs were often laid out on a 12 × 12 inch mat or next to the page. Objects outside the page are kept, the SVG canvas is enlarged to include them, and the result tells you when that happens. Nothing is moved or scaled.

If a file does not open

• A .studio file of a few hundred bytes may be a damaged or incomplete download: the result says when a file ends too early.
• Designs from before Silhouette Studio were saved as .gsd or .gst by Graphtec ROBO Master; that is a different format, which this converter does not read.

Newer files are covered on the Studio3 to SVG page.

More about what this tool reads and writes: Silhouette Studio File Converter.