Attached is a pic of the problem… I realize this drawing is troublesome, but a lot of the free art out there comes in like this… not one continuous line.
i know Im not the only one… how are other people dealing with this issue?!
Your screen capture doesn’t show up in the posting and, for me, isn’t very useful. The original source file would be most useful in diagnosing the problem.
Here you are. What do you make of it?
maple_leaf.dxf (18.9 KB)
(fixed the pic)
It’s ready to cut according to Sheetcam…
I didn’t do anything but import it into Sheetcam with Metric scaling. SheetCam was perfectly happy with it.
IMO, if you’re doing ‘art’, SheetCam & Inkscape are the tools to use…
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so it worked in sheetcam right off the bat for you? Do you use fusion360 at all?
Im trying to use fusion, because its used for a lot of other tools… but dang, its hard.
Yes, I downloaded your file, opened sheetcam, imported the drawing, made a cut operation and could have produced a G-Code file with the push of a button. It took less than three minutes… maybe less than two. It would have been faster but I mistakenly imported in Inch scale first and that made for a mighty big Maple Leaf!
I do not use Fusion. I may have downloaded it once, but never installed it after finding out who made it. I use Solid Edge 2020 for CAD applications. That’s recent. I used to use Sketchup but they’ve gotten expensive (annual updates) and, while it’s 3D, it’s not a Mechanical Design CAD program.
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I tried Fusion 360. Watched Paul McWorter’s series called learn Fusion 360 or die trying (doing all his exercises) and died trying. Constraints system is essencial for 3d work but hinders the 2d process in my opinion. After about 40 hrs I bought Sheetcam and never looked back. I use inkscape for art and have an AutoCAD clone called ProgeCAD for tight tolerance work (was originally free, and then purchased for my business about 8-10 years ago). Sheetcam won’t fix a drawing but for G-Code processing it is really an amazing program for the price.
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inkscape is better at handling the artsy stuff you download from the internet than fusion. and its free. Alot of the stuff you download is full of nodes and broken lines that makes fusion bog down because it can’t handle it.
fusion is better for creating your own drawings/files.
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Too many nodes. If you’re using Inkscape, CTRL-L will simplify that
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Sometimes ‘free’ is the most expensive option. I’ve had people ask me to use art they downloaded for free, and ended up spending more time editing, than if I had just drawn it in CAD from scratch to begin with. For example, I would have taken one shot at a quick import of the leaf, and if it failed, I’d have just drawn it in Cad while looking at the image. Learning more different tools (like Inkscape) is probably worthwhile - I didn’t even know it had a function to clean up line art.
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