how to export a drawing from inkscape to dxf file

The second method, the downgrade of a 3D object seems a nice alternative. Since the module is young and big things are planned to come it is already a good start -very usable for creating drawings for the workshop but not perfect yet. Preferences->Part Design->Shape View->Max deviation affects the visualization but unfortunately not the svn export. The problem is easily visible when a cylinder with 2mm radius is created and a view from top is made: it has 12 corners. downgrading an object with a hole indeed looses the hole, it's a bug, I'll fix it ASAP.Īs for the tesselation problem I use the drawing module. If you can attach an example, I might be able to solve it.ģ.

But if you have flat objects that don't get exported correctly, it's probably a bug. It works fine with flat, horizontal objects, not too well with non-flat 3D objects.

the dxf export is made mostly for 2D work. This will affect how your curves appear on screen but I'm not sure if it will affect svg output.Ģ. Did you use the drawing module or just did export->svg directly from the standard 3D view? You can change the tesselation value in the preferences (Preferences->Part Design->Shape View->Max deviation). the tesselation occuring in svg documents I hadn't seen before. I'll add a feature request.Ĭurrently you have to use some 'tricks' like you tried, I think the best way would indeed be to separate/downgrade your object into flat components and export it to dxf. Your post makes me think it would be useful to be able to export that svg sheet directly to dxf.

At the moment you still don't have much control over things like linewidth, etc, you cannot do more complex stuff like sections, etc. Basically you can create a default page, and insert 'views' of your 3D objects in it, and configure scale, position, orientation, etc. It already works quite well, but still lacks functionality. The 'official' way being developed with FreeCAD would be to use the drawing module, to generate an svg drawing of your 3D content. Indeed formatting 3D data to 2D is a big topic.

How to export a drawing from inkscape to dxf file