Export multiple sketches as one DXF file in free version

[alex.p]

Hello,

i wonder if something changed in the last couple of month or i have broken my brain? In January i somehow managed to save DXF file consisting of multiple sketches, however now i'm struggling to do the same (Fusion limitations update was in autumn, as far as i remember). The workflow is as follows: Click on SAVE AS DXF on the first sketch. Open the resulting DXF file, use INSERT DXF to insert the rest of the sketches. Now that all the sketches have been arranged on the canvas i realize that this file cannot be exported as DXF ((

Is the a solution to this inside Fusion 360, or do i have to learn another software to combine my DXF files into one?

[jeff_strater]

You can export a design as DXF, and I suspect that this would create a single DXF with all sketches on it.  But, yes, DXF export is not enabled for the Personal license, I believe

[alex.p · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the reply, i can only see export option on individual sketches though, so i'm not sure how that would be achieved. I think i have figured it out though how i did it last time, might be helpful to someone. Once i have created a DXF file from the first sketch, i opened that file and inserted all the other DXF's produced from individual sketches into it (though the menu INSERT DXF). That created 25 individual sketches for me in that file. Then i go into each sketch individually by clicking EDIT SKETCH, select the geometry, click COPY, click FINISH SKETCH, then click EDIT SKETCH on the first sketch, click PASTE, and geometry from the other sketch is pasted into the first one. Then i repeat that for all the sketches in the design, so the first sketch is populated with all the geometry from the rest of the sketches, and then that first sketch can be exported as DXF! 

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

yes, that is the only way to export more than one sketch with the Personal license.  If you have the full version, you can export a single DXF that includes multiple sketches.  One is attached.

the Fusion design and the DXF from it are attached

[autodeskJMGHR]

And again the free version makes me hate this program! Lucky for me there are so many alternatives! Just wished I didnot spend so much time on learning fusion.....