Hi. I have a cutting machine that works only with DXF file format. I tried the 30-day-trial 2019 version. But the exported file didn’t work out. it looked gibberish to the DXF viewer. Do I have to buy the full version to get the workable DXF file. It’s a lot easier to work with Sketchup than Aut…

Looked like gibberish doesn’t really tell us much. It might have been the way you set up the model in the first place or some setting in the DXF export. If you share the SKP and DXF files so we can see what you started with and what you ended up with, we can give you some guidance. The DXF export i…

Just today I learned from Aaron that the 2D and 3D DXF exporters work in different ways. To get the best file for your cutting machine, design the outlines flat on the ground, delete any faces, and export the edges as DXF 3D.

Can you post what you had in SU and what the exported DXF looks like?

[image] colin: To get the best file for your cutting machine, design the outlines flat on the ground, delete any faces, and export the edges as DXF 3D. Reason being, the 3D DXF export preserves circle and arc entities while 2D DXF export does not. I also find it helps to draw the arcs in cou…

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DanRathbun June 28, 2019, 3:58pm 5

There are extensions …

Garry’s latest … (read the thread from the top if interested in how it came about and how it changed.)

There may also be one around that @thomthom wrote for laser cutters.

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