Bolt holes were placed on the frame then one by one sitting above the border object/path/divide objects below to make them actual holes. Can't though.Īs well, you need to make outlines of text and other elements (stroke border and deer/tree art in this case) and subsequently merge them all into one group otherwise you'll have cut marks separating elements and making the work fall apart if you actually cut it. Were this Photoshop I'd draw up all 21 required panels with the art on each layer and the frame as its own element and output them individually. This is annoying but just save off copies with that stuff intact.unless you have a better idea which I would love to hear about. All guides must be deleted and all hidden elements must also be deleted as well or it will show up in a DXF. A narrower line won't be read as easily and ends up with problems.
#Catia dxf export software
To have ANY success at all as a cutting file all elements need to have no fill (white box with red line through it, noobs) and with some stroke (0.0313 in the image below) so it comes through for the machine specific software to read. On the cutting software each file always has a random extra line but I don't think Illustrator is at fault with that. This panel is part of a three section fire ring, the holes on each side are for bolting to other panels. You can solve a lot of problems looking at it this way before burning time in other software or on a cutting machine of any sort. The image below is what the DXF looks like when opened back up in Illustrator after outputting. I have spent a great deal of time studying this topic so will share my notes.
I'm not CAD trained yet and come from Photoshop so I understand the want to work in Illustrator and the frustration of outputting. Not always, mind you, there is no doubt how finicky this process is. I convert Illustrator CS5 to DXF for a plasma cutter with success on a regular basis without additional plugins. Would appreciate any help and thanks for taking the time to read my post hopefully its not too confusing How can I export out of illustrator without getting all these problems, I must be doing something stupid wrong out of pure lack of experience with it so appologise if this sounds stupid but would really love some advice and help with this as I have many files I need to get turned into workable dxf files. When I take this or any of my saved files into the cad software the laser machine software does not generally recognise there are even lines there so I started taking it into draftsite and saving as a R12 DXF which works but the dwg or dxf exported out of illustrator have sometimes hundreds of anchor points which where not there when it was a vector or the anchor points are not actually on the lines anymore they are way off outside the drawing. ai file and all the anchors and outline look fine so I make any small changes like spacing etc, I then try to save as a dwg or dxf in all different save preferences but normally as R13 dwg. I have a vector image in CS6 and have also tried in older CS5 or CS4, the image is already a. Im trying to turn some vector images into a dxf file for laser cutting and im constantly banging my head against a wall with it as the files just wont work once converted over to dxf or dwg files. Im really hoping someone can help me with this as I have spent many hours googling, youtube and many other methods trying to solve a constant problem im having.