I was going to create a couple of nests and make .tap files, but I can’t make sense of how this thing goes together and how many of each piece is needed. The DXF that the OP provided looks like a nest of parts that is designed to fit on a 4 x 8 sheet, but it doesn’t look like all the parts in the nest make sense as a firepit.
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Maybe with your lighter SVG file I can try to reconstruct it in 3D in fusion 360.
I was unsure how it went together too.
I think the panels that have part of the circuit board cut off in a triangle must be pointing down at the bottom?
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Yikes! I gave up after I limited the sketch to two panels. I tried to move them apart and then everything went into chaos. That is when I saw @DonP was still working on it last night.
I haven’t given up but designing is during the week for me. its cut time on most weekends.
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What struck me as odd, is that I used the “hunt and find” (don’t really know the name for it) method with drawing diagonal lines across the sketch and it does not seem to respond in a way like it is completing a body or closed entity. It is almost like the points are not on the same plane.
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You mentioned Affinity designer so I figured you had worked with it as an svg.
I had the same feeling working with the file. They show up on the same plane? something is disjointed about the whole thing.
So that makes sense with the image that @ArcForce provided. @TinWhisperer had suggested that the triangular pieces pointed down:
And the flat pieces are for the base. Good sleuthing Brian!
Not so sure that this would hold up as a “Fire Pit.”
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That makes sense now. It seems like all the pieces are there in the original nest. Too many big holes to use that as a fire pit.
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Where did you find that image? Do you have any details about it?
Etsy. typed in square firepit or it pops up in geodesic firepits as well.
That might be why the file is a mess.?
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I made 3 cut files with the size unchanged from the original. At that size, 2 panels fit side by side on a 48" wide sheet. Any larger and you can’t fit more than one panel on a sheet. One of the files has two different panels and you will need to cut 2 of them. In total, you will need to cut this from 4 32 x 48 sheets. The settings are what work for me on 11 ga steel at 40 amps. Cut them at your own risk.
Note: I did find another open line on the center of the full panel and fixed it before creating these files.
112 panel nest cut2.tap (213.7 KB)
112 single panel.tap (93.0 KB)
112 additional parts.tap (4.6 KB)
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Yes that is what it was supposed to look like. I bought it from Etsy. Ill message the seller and see what he has to say about it. thank you all for the help!!!
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Just to clarify.
Not all files from Etsy are clean and some don’t download properly into whatever program you use.
Some are really great.
I, personally, have bought files that are close to perfect and others where I had to spent a couple of hours to clean and resize. That is where the time spent in whichever program you have really makes the difference. Inkscape and sheetcam for me.
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Im just now realizing that.
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For anyone interested in how I fixed the broken line and separated the parts into individual files, I made a loom video showing the process. I didn’t do every part in the video, but you should get the idea. There is no sound, just a screen capture of the process.
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Very cool! You are the Inkscape wizard! Thank you for sharing.
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I will try them this week and let you know how things go! Thank you guys so much!!!
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new question…looks like everything is fixed but how can i open these .tap files in fusion? I run my file converter and it loads 65 different SVG. I downloaded the last one and won’t work. can someone create thiese as SVG or DXF?