fen2dxf - chess position to vinyl cutter

Position

FEN

Pick a piece, then click squares to place it. Click Erase to remove. Any arrangement is allowed — nothing here enforces chess rules.

Vinyl colours

Four sheets that tile rather than stack: heat transfer vinyl bonds to fabric and not to itself, so nothing overlaps anything and every piece is knocked back out of the square under it. The colours are for the preview only — a DXF carries none — but getting them right here is how you find out that white pieces vanish on a near-white square before you buy the roll.

Board

Cutting & checks

Export

Four files, cut from four colours. They do not overlap, so they can be pressed in any order. Every one carries the same weeding box, so lining those rectangles up lines up everything inside them. DXF is written as R12 polylines in millimetres, the dialect Silhouette Studio is known to import. Cut the calibration square once to confirm the scale.

Credits

Pieces are the solid glyphs of the Chess font by James Kilfiger, dedicated by its author to the public domain. Nothing you export from here is encumbered. Application code is MIT.

Default position: Leonid Kubbel, Schachmatny Listok 1922. White to move and win.