Animals · Vector / Laser / CNC
Butterfly Curve
A butterfly traced from the classic butterfly curve with an engraved body line. The wings cross at the centre: engrave or score rather than cut.
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Heartline Works Original Design. Free to use for personal projects and for products you make and sell. Please do not resell, share or redistribute the design files themselves, alone or in a pack.
- Size
- 104.6 × 88.9 mm (4.12 × 3.5 in)
- File formats
- SVG, DXF, PDF, PNG
- Best for
- Engraving, scoring or marking. Overlapping lines are not meant for through-cutting.
- Materials
- Plywood; MDF; Slate / stone (diode or CO2); Anodised aluminium (fibre); Leather
- Machines
- CO2 laser; Diode laser; Fibre laser (metals)
- Software
- 2D files (SVG, DXF, PDF) open in vector and CAM programs that read those formats, such as Inkscape, Illustrator, CorelDRAW, LightBurn, Fusion 360 or VCarve. Program names are examples of software that reads the format, not tested guarantees.
- Licence
- Heartline Works Original Design
- Source
- Original design by Heartline Works, constructed from geometry; no third-party artwork, fonts or traced images.
- Design ID
- butterfly-curve
File check
- 2 closed shapes (0 as true circles in DXF); 2440 polyline nodes.
- No open paths: every outline is closed.
- One layer in one hairline colour; units are millimetres, the SVG is sized in real millimetres.
Always make a test cut or a test print on scrap before production. Kerf and shrinkage differ from machine to machine.