topic Re: Export face as DXF in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Export face as DXF

codefoster — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 16:30:42 GMT

I see how I can right click a sketch and "Save as DXF" for laser cutting, but what if I want to export the shape of a face that I don't have a sketch for. In the following screenshot, I actually would have a sketch for the blue face, but if I didn't and I wanted to just get that exact shape (including dimensions) out to a DXF so I could cut it, how might I do that?

Re: Export face as DXF

carl_bass — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 16:51:38 GMT

While an extra step, you can create a sketch on that face (or a plane offset from that face) and just project the edges to the sketch plane and then save the sketch as dxf for laser cutting

Re: Export face as DXF

codefoster — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 17:21:33 GMT

I thought about projection, but didn't think about projecting the edges, so that's definitely helpful. Thanks. It would be much easier if there were a shortcut to select a number of sketch edges such as double clicking the face created by a set of edges or double clicking any of the edges. Or perhaps right clicking a face and seeing an option in the context menu to Select Edges.

Re: Export face as DXF

dthoffman225 — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 21:49:13 GMT

Thanks for that tip, that worked great for me. I appreciate all of the technical support that you guys are offering.