[TheForge] DXF FILES

Fri May 10 06:51:01 2002

A quick note...
I had to generate some dxf's for the sheet metal division of a company I
worked for a few years ago, and this is the method that we used.

remove ALL extraneous lines from the drawing
make sure all unused layers are deleted
make sure that there are no lines with partial lines or objects below them
audit the drawing
purge the drawing
re-audit the drawing
save the drawing in rel 11 dxf format

hope this helps

Paul C. Sperbeck
My Grandfather was a blacksmith,
and It didn't do me one damn bit of good...

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Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 08:18 PM
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Subject: [TheForge] DXF FILES

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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