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Problems exporting drawings as DXF and DWG

wesley.freeman — Tue, 17 May 2022 15:33:37 GMT

Hi, I have issues when exporting drawings.

Fabricators doing sheet metal for me want DWG or DXF.

When I export as DWG in either of the available "Autodesk" or "simplified" sub-formats it cannot be read.

When I export as DXF, the dimensions are all wrong. If I place a part on the drawing in Fusion at say 1:2 scale, add a dimension and it's 400mm, that dimension label will show as 200mm in the DXF.

I attached DXF, DWG (Autodesk), plus PDF versions (which are fine), and a STEP of the object.

EDIT: I tried another viewer and the DXF is ok so I don't think that's Fusion's fault, but what about DWGs? Even eDrawings viewer can't open it.

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g-andresen — Tue, 17 May 2022 15:39:21 GMT

Hi,

@wesley.freeman schrieb:
Hi, I have issues when exporting drawings.

Fabricators doing sheet metal for me want DWG or DXF.

for the purpose you need to export flat patterns in sheetmetal sector ( 1:1 ) and not from the drawing, because these are views (in your case 1:2)

günther

Re: Problems exporting drawings as DXF and DWG

ClintBrown3D — Tue, 17 May 2022 15:38:55 GMT

Hi @wesley.freeman

If you want a DXF that is 1:1, you need to place the views on the drawing sheet that is 1:1.

The best workflow generally, is to use the largest paper size, then place the views at 1:1, you can delete the drawing border, don't worry if the views exceed the sheet, because the sheet itself is not exported to DXF.

Hope that this helps.

Re: Problems exporting drawings as DXF and DWG

wesley.freeman — Wed, 18 May 2022 10:43:25 GMT

Thanks for this tip, I had no idea you could do that. However I think Gunther's suggestion is more straightforward and I'll go with that, unless the fabricator has problems with it.

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wesley.freeman — Wed, 18 May 2022 10:47:43 GMT

Thanks Gunther, I didn't notice that was an option!

Admittedly this doesn't address the DWG problem, but I'm going to be selfish, let someone else worry about that, and stick with DXF if the fabricator is happy!

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g-andresen — Wed, 18 May 2022 13:53:22 GMT

Hi,

there are several DXF to DWG online converters available

günther