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Making holes in sketches

jackjmcinnes — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:17:22 GMT

Hi There, getting to grips with sketcher, I have drawn the out line of my design, then added circles of which represent holes, when i export the file to dxf for the laser cutter, will it read the circles as holes? Am i doing this correctly or is there a better way of doing it? @jhackney1972

Re: Making holes in sketches

jhackney1972 — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:24:01 GMT

Your DXF will pick up the circles, whether your Laser will interpret them as holes, that is up to your post processor. Your DXF will contain all of your Construction lines, which may give you a problem.

Re: Making holes in sketches

Warmingup1953 — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:25:32 GMT

I use a free Add-in to create good, almost universally readable .dxf files from the Planar faces of Solid Bodies:

DXF for Laser

It does a simple Projection to a new sketch in the background but then importantly for me, it (optionally) tidies up the timeline after creating the .dxf

Re: Making holes in sketches

jackjmcinnes — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:01:05 GMT

Thank you guys much appricated!

Re: Making holes in sketches

jackjmcinnes — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:02:25 GMT

Thank you John !

Re: Making holes in sketches

jackjmcinnes — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:02:46 GMT

Thank you, will give this ago!