Making holes in sketches

[jackjmcinnes]

Hi There, getting to grips with sketcher, I have drawn the out line of my design, then added circles of which represent holes, when i export the file to dxf for the laser cutter, will it read the circles as holes? Am i doing this correctly or is there a better way of doing it? @jhackney1972

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

Your DXF will pick up the circles, whether your Laser will interpret them as holes, that is up to your post processor.  Your DXF will contain all of your Construction lines, which may give you a problem.

[Warmingup1953 · Accepted solution]

I use a free Add-in to create good, almost universally readable .dxf files from the Planar faces of Solid Bodies:

DXF for Laser 

It does a simple Projection to a new sketch in the background but then importantly for me, it (optionally) tidies up the timeline after creating the .dxf

[jackjmcinnes]

Thank you guys much appricated! 

[jackjmcinnes]

Thank you John !

[jackjmcinnes]

Thank you, will give this ago!