Fusion
Accepted solution
What I usually do for getting things either laser cut or waterjet cut is that I extrude my design from the original sketch that includes all the constraints dimensions and construction lines.
Then I create another sketch on the top surface of that extrusion and project all the extruded elements into that new sketch.
That sketch then is exported into a DXF.
I described the alternative method in my post above, which was marked as the solution.
While I agree that the Onshape workflow takes out a couple of steps and it would also make a great idea for the idea statoin, I can assure you that exporting the file as a step importing it into Onshape and then exporting it as a .dxf is not faster my any means.
Coming to a new forum and introducing yourself with a rant is not the most intelligent way to contributing to a community.
In general that's what the idea station is for, bot I have a strong opinion on its usefulness.
The workflow I described above has one advantage:
Many CAD users are not very disciplined in creating sketches and avoiding stacked line elements. In the early days of CAD this very often led to pen plotters drawing a line repeatedly on top of another resulting in a wasted time, wasted plotter paper, wasted plotter pens etc. Still nowadays this often confuses software or laser cutting etc.
Creating a "fresh DXF by auto-projecting a "virgin" surface really avoids this problem altogether. It is spiffy clean!
Also, it is so fast to do fully and associative to the underlying surface. I have a hard time imagining that this is mode time consuming than deleting all construction lines from a Sketch.
Also, you can apply proper solid modeling techniques and eliminate fillets from sketches, and in general details that should be solid modeled and not sketched. There are no sketch constraints to debug and in general this is much faster then designing a sketch with all needed details for machining.
