Exporting Multiple Components as DXF's...

[Anonymous]

Hey Fusion Folks,

Really appreciate this forum and as a relative Fusion noob I have learned a lot just lurking around here. I have run into one problem however that I just have not been able to find a clear answer to (at least the places that I have looked). I'm learning Fusion to be able to cut things out on my plasma cutter and I have run into some problems exporting 3D components to 2d (dxf's) to be able do cut out. I know how to export a sketch as a DXF and that is a pretty simple process, but when I'm designing something more complicated, like a fire pit with multiple components I'm running into some problems. Using my sketch as a starting point, I end up turning it into a body and then a component that has changed significantly from the original sketch. Exporting the original sketch doesn't capture the changes that I have made in the final component however. The only way I have discovered to do that is to create new sketch, and then project the final component into the new sketch and then exporting that as a dxf.

Is that really the easiest way to do this particularly if you have multiple components that you want to export to plasma cut? Is there an easier/streamlined way to export the entire assembly as a DXF and not component by component? The last instruction I read on the above method is a couple years old so I'm wondering if there is an easier more updated what then the method I watched.

Thanks again for reading and your willingness to help.

[etfrench]

Creating the sketch from the model is probably the best way to capture details not in the original sketch.  That being said, I think your workflow would be improved if you created fully parametric sketches, then make changes in the model by editing the parameters.

[davebYYPCU]

You are correct, export sketch to dxf is tedious. 

For parts with planar faces, use DXFer from GitHub.

This little routine will export all the part faces selected to one dxf file, on one layer per part.  

For non planar faces you will have to check out sheet metal flat patterns, again one Component part per file.

Might help...