Sketches to DXF’s to drawings?

[Anonymous]

is it possible to export a fusion design to dxf

[mike.tessier]

Hi @Anonymous,

Thanks for posting!

I just want to be sure that I am understanding what you are looking to accomplish. Are you trying to export the entire design as a DXF or are you just looking to save a sketch as a DXF?

I look forward to hearing back from you!

Cheers,

[xander.luciano]

Hello,

If you are looking to export a sketch as a DXF you can right click the sketch and choose "Save As DXF"

For a 3D object, you'd want to create a drawing of the model, then save that as DXF.

Best,

[burnandreturn]

You  wrote first you have to create a drawing from your 3D model and then export as a .dxf.     What have I missed?   To my knowledge you can not export a dxf from a drawing.  Only from a sketch.   There is no option to export a dxf from a drawing you create from a 3d model. 

Or is it hidden someplace that I haven't found?   That has been my biggest complaint with Fusion.   Every other CAD program I use lets me export a drawing to dxf.  Not Fusion.

Do you actually use this program?

[burnandreturn]

It is very frustrating for new users of Fusion when EMPLOYEES give advice on how to use the program that have obviously not used the program.  It makes me wonder what other advice is given that is wrong.  We spend a lot of time trying to figure out Fusion and its quirks and then to be given wrong advice is a a serious ball buster.

Xander you should stay off the forum and not give advice.  Period.  You don't know what you are doing with Fusion.  Pisses me off.

In the thread over how to make 2D better I wrote early on about the lack of dxf export from drawings.  The EMPLOYEES never responded.   If they don't like something they just ignore it.  Crap.

It has been my experience with Fusion that they are not fixing the important things to the actual USERS in most cases.  Notice I wrote fixing not implementing.

Was it ever addressed regarding updating the software to be electable for a period of time.  Recently there was an update that broke a lot of things in Fusion.  People that were using it in a critical situation were left stranded.  Was this ever satisfactorily ever addressed?  Was it even addressed at all?   

[promm · Accepted solution]

@burnandreturn,

The title is: sketches to dxf's to drawings? does ask about the use of drawings as a workflow.  However, if you look at @Anonymous original question of how to save a design as a dxf I can easily see how @xander.luciano missed this part of the question.  I understand that you want the ability to create a dxf from a drawing, at this time Xander's response is our solution to the workflow creating a dxf of a model.  

Fusion offers you two paths for taking your design to manufacturing:

1. Create a dxf from a sketch.  I have a background in engineering and in the past I too would create a dxf from a drawing so completely understand.  With that said, my workflow was to add a second sheet, add a view of the model 1:1 (never fit on a sheet) and then export the second sheet as a dxf.  Our solution let's you get to the same result, just a different workflow.

2. Bring your model in to the CAM environment.  A dxf is traditionally used to cut out or manufacture a part.  Fusion's laser and water jet preview allows you to create the code needed to cut the parts.  You can also export the cut paths as a dxf from our CAM environment.

You also brought up a point about Fusion staff not responding to posts that we don't like.  I'm sorry you feel this way, we try to spend as much time on the forum as possible, but with the volume of activity we do occasionally miss things.  Hope no hard feelings, it wasn't intentional.

Regards,

Mike Prom

[TrippyLighting]

It is easy enough to get at least a beginning understanding what experience level a user might have by going through prior posts of the user.

That little bit of leg work usually helps in making to many uneducated assumptions.

Also, employees are humans and can make mistakes just like anyone else. It's perfectly fine to point out mistaken advice and perhaps correct where necessary, but there is a way to do this respecfully. Asking another user that was trying to help out to stay off the forum is highly inappropriate.

I totally disagree with your statement that bugs that are important to actual users are not fixed. I spend a lot of time on the forum helping other users. In the process of that I've helped uncover a good number of bugs and usually they are actully fixed very quickly.

[burnandreturn]

The employee wrote it was possible to export a dxf from a drawing.  That is not possible so it is obvious the employee doesn't use the program or know how to use it.  Quite simple.  If the employee doesn't have a through understanding of using the program they shouldn't be giving advice. 

That is not respectful or disrespectful just fact.

[burnandreturn]

Sorry promm but you totally missed the point. To export a dxf from drawings is a fundamental necessity that has not been addressed. To those of us that actually build things and have parts cut by water jet, laser, or cnc plasma the ability to export a dxf from a drawing is very important.

[xander.luciano]

Hello, 

I realize that the information I gave at the time was not correct now, however I do my best to help out as many users as possible. The title of your post is "Sketches to DXF's to drawings" so I incorrectly assumed that you were trying to export a sketch as a DXF (which is what the majority of my post was about). The last line was my fault in that I incorrectly recalled what export options existed in drawing. You are able to export as DWG, and I failed to check before writing that comment. My apologies for the incorrect information.



Please understand that there are a lot of posts on the forums, and I cannot create perfect replies for everyone. I do my best helping out as many people as I can, and sometimes I make mistakes.

Hopefully you can understand,

[Anonymous]

Hi
Appreciate all the fedback and appologies for where I posted
I did search for saving a scetch to dfx and came up witb no result
That said I am trying to take a simple sketch to dfx
Thanks all