[TheForge] DXF FILES

[Ray Miller]

 You are experiencing the challenges we all face in this domain, EVEN 
using the expensive AutoCAD. AutoCAD LT has the capability to generate 
the dxfs, but some lasers can read them some can't. I have a friend who 
is a graphic designer and works in some wizbang graphics packages and 
they can save out files as pretty much anything you want. Perhaps if you 
were to enlist the aid of a graphic designer to computerize the images 
you desire to cut out.

I have been considering the dive into graphics applications to help 
better represent my ideas to clients and then for those that require 
laser or water jet cutting the transfer to dxf should be seemless.
 
My two cents.

Ray
Cincinnati
 

Mike Wolfe wrote:

>I am going to try this one more time...
>
>My plasma guy would like dxf files to input my line drawings to his
>computer. I can scan my line drawings in photoshop and save them as
>tiff's, then he has to go through a mess to convert them to dxf or
>"vector"
>I would love to be able to give him a dxf file.
>At on time I received a coral draw file via e-mail and then was able to
>open it and resave it in the coral dxf. then I gave it to a laser guy
>who was able to open it and use it.
>I can open my tiff in coral and look at it and then save it , but the
>plasma guys can not open it.. Something in there program dislikes
>coral's dxf.
>
>Is there any other program that I can use to convert the tiff to a dxf..
>
>Something at reasonable price not at auto cad program prices...
>
>An I not understanding the conversion process, is  the process of taking
>a raster line drawing and converting it to a vector drawing is far more
>complicated then I think????
>Mike Wolfe
>
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