How to get a sketch from design?

[deonholt]

Hi everyone and thank you for your help.

I am busy with the design for a box for my diode laser/engraver and learning more and more as I go along. I managed to design the front, back, left and right panels. After this I extruded all of them in order for me to use the finger joint add-in. It can only joint bodies and not sketches.

I need to make/get sketches from all 4 panels in order to make the toolpaths that I use in my CNC's software. These I need to save/export as DXF files. I know that it is possible to save sketches as DXF but not bodies. When I right-click on a body, there is not option to create a text from the geometry of the bodies.

I am sure that it is possible but I don't know what to search/look for?

Thank you very much so long for your advice.

 

[wersy]

Create a sketch on the surface of the body.
Select "Poject" to get the outlines

Save the sketch as DXF

[davebYYPCU]

The default is to create an output sketch, project the face and save as dxf.
I use the Addin on GitHub called DXFer.

Select all required faces of the bodies, 

you will receive a single dxf file with each face outline as a block / layer.

if working with Components, you can Arrange those into one export sketch.

Might help.

[deonholt]

Thank you so much for your replies. I appreciate your help & advice.

[Warmingup1953 · Accepted solution]

I use a free add-in called DXF for Laser. Does this task very well and importantly cleans up after itself so as to keep your Timeline from getting cluttered!

Windows OS Link but there is a macOS version as well

https://apps.autodesk.com/FUSION/en/Detail/Index?id=7634902334100976871&os=Win64&appLang=en

[deonholt]

Thank you very much. It works very well, thanks.

[wersy]

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@deonholt  schrieb:
Thank you very much. It works very well, thanks.

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[deonholt]

Hi Dave.
I downloaded everything and followed installation as per instructions to the teeth. Is shows in the Scripts and Add-Ins box. Run at startup is ticked and I clocked "Run" but cannot find it. Even if I hit the S for the search to open, search does not find it.
Am I doing something wrong?