Problem with dxf file

Tasos

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Oct 15, 2015, 2:28:53 AM10/15/15

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Dear friends,

LaserCut complains when I try to import this dxf file and prompts me to explode it in Autocad. If I ignore the warning and continue the file just doesn't get imported correctly. I am not sure which Autocad version dxf format this is but I know this file has been used successfully for CNC cutting. Could any of the more experienced laser cutters who have Autocad (or otherwise) cure it and export it in the correct format for our laser cutter? Could it just be that the design has thickness and needs to be squashed down to 2D?

Also attaching a pdf so you can tell how it should look like. In the correct scale it should all fit in 700mmX500mm area.

Many thanks in advance.

Tasos

fixersFrame-8mm.dxf

fixersFrame-8mm.pdf

Tasos

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Oct 15, 2015, 5:26:22 AM10/15/15

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Dear all,

Further to my earlier post regarding the attached dxf, I also tried to open it in Incscape, which returned the following error:

"1891 ENTITIES of type POLYLINE encountered and ignored. Please try to convert to Release 13 format using QCad."

Please help if you can.

Best,
Tasos

James Hayward

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Oct 15, 2015, 5:36:34 AM10/15/15

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Taos. where did you get the dxf from? If you exported it from somewhere, try exporting it again as either version 13 or 14 DXF.

Alternatively, if the PDF is the same, import that into Inkscape and export from there as DXF. You will need to install ghostscript before you can import PDFs. A google search for "open pdfs in Inkscape" will help.

J

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Michael Erskine

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Oct 15, 2015, 5:39:10 AM10/15/15

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DXF is a shoddy "industry standard" and has limited support in the
many CAD software packages out there. Have you tried processing it
with QCad as suggested?

On 15 October 2015 at 10:26, Tasos <3dso...@gmail.com> wrote:

Tasos

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Oct 15, 2015, 6:03:56 AM10/15/15

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Thanks!

Michael: I hadn't realised Qcad is open source! So I can open it fine in Qcad, but when I save it as "R13 DXF Drawing (Teigha)" it's still not right.

(It's much better than before though.)

James: It was designed in Illustrator, which I don't have. Good trick about importing pdf. I'll try this too!

If anyone can fix this in two mins, please do. If it's likely to take you longer, then leave it but please send some other suggestions if you have.

I'll keep trying the two options above. Many thanks guys!

Tasos

paul meynell

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Oct 18, 2015, 2:53:22 PM10/18/15

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I tend to bring in Svg files and save as DXF on the laser PC , if I save on my laptop it comes out a different size in laser cut ( normally around 10 times bigger!)

Tasos

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Oct 18, 2015, 3:06:24 PM10/18/15

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Problem is now solved. I have had to go back to the original Illustrator file, do some ungroupings and delete double lines. Exporting from PDF also worked after some trial and error with settings.