Crop an SVG online

Clip or delete: two ways to crop an SVG

Rayzia has one infinite canvas, and an artboard is a rectangle that marks a region of it as a page. Artboards are crop frames, not containers, so they never own the objects inside them. That makes them a genuinely non-destructive crop: draw a board over the region you want and export, and the output viewBox is set to the board rectangle. Anything off the board is clipped on render rather than removed, so the full artwork is still in the document if you change your mind later.

The other way is to get rid of what you do not want. Select it and press Delete. If a shape sits half inside your crop region, cut it first with the Knife or Scissors and delete the offcut. There is also a Crop command under Path ▸ Pathfinder. A wrong delete is not fatal, because every step is one undo away.

How to crop an SVG online in five steps

1. Open the editor. Go to rayzia.com and open the editor at /vector/. Nothing to download and no account needed to start; it runs in any browser on Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS or a tablet.
2. Drag in your SVG. Drop the file onto the canvas, or use File then Open. Rayzia reads it as native SVG, so every shape, path and letter arrives as its own editable object rather than a locked image.
3. Decide what stays. For a crop that loses nothing, leave the artwork alone and let the artboard do the clipping in the next step. For a permanent crop, select the unwanted pieces (Shift+click to add and remove) and press Delete. Where a shape straddles your crop line, the Knife splits it along a freehand drag and keeps both sides, so you can delete just one.
4. Fit the artboard to the crop region. Press Shift+O for the Artboard tool and drag a board over the area you want to keep, or pick a preset such as A4, Letter, IG Post or Full HD from the option bar. To hug an object exactly, select it and use Convert Selection to Artboards, which sizes a board to its bounding box. Drag a corner or edge handle to fine-tune.
5. Export the cropped file. File ▸ Export gives you SVG, PNG and JPG, and SVG and PNG are free. The export sets the output viewBox to the board rectangle, so the file is tightly cropped without the hidden parts being deleted. PNG keeps transparency.

Cut out just the piece you want

Sometimes the goal is not a rectangular crop but a single piece lifted out of a bigger illustration. Rayzia's cutting tools are made for that.

The Knife cuts along a freehand drag: every shape the line crosses splits into separate pieces, both sides are kept, and the cut has zero width. Scissors cuts a path open at exactly the point you click, and nothing is deleted; clicking a rectangle or ellipse converts it to path geometry first. The Eraser (Shift+E) defaults to cutting out from objects, though note it ships set to act on every object it touches, not only the selection.

Once the piece is separated, select the leftovers and press Delete. Alt+click selects objects stacked behind, stepping deeper with each click, which helps in layered artwork. Then fit an artboard to what remains and export.

Cropping SVGs: common questions