Unable to insert dxf drawings

[yobtug]

Hi,

wonder if you can help. I had been working with the two attached drawings in nanocad a few months back. I had thought I'd been able to import them successfully to Fusion previously but perhaps misremembering.

When I try and insert now I get a failure message.

Is there something wrong with the drwaings, if so how can I rectify.

Thanks in advance

[g-andresen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

here they are inserted

günther

[HughesTooling]

They load for me and give a warning about no units being set in the file. There might have been another warning the first time I opened one of the files but it disappeared before I could read it.

But I wouldn't want to work with these in Fusion, the curves are not splines but polylines made from thousands of line segments. The file below is over 5,000 lines!

[yobtug]

thanks for the quick responses.I get a warning about there no units but on moving past this I get an error message only. It seems the drawings need some work before they can be manipulated in Fusion.

Is there a way to convert the polylines into one continuous line? I vaguely recall doing something like this in Freecad, unclear if Fusion has such a facility.

BR

[g-andresen]

Hi,

Did you open the f3 d file > #2?

1. i could import both DXF files without error message.
2. extrudable profiles can be selected without problems.

günther

> body back : double contour removed

attached: converted versions

[jhackney1972]

@g-andresen inserted the DXFs into a model, @HughesTooling warned you that the lines contain 1000s of points.  I have done a video showing one way to convert a muti-point sketch into a smooth single segment sketch for modeling.  I know it is a long process but if you really want to use the sketch it is a way.

[HughesTooling]

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@yobtug wrote:

Is there a way to convert the polylines into one continuous line? I vaguely recall doing something like this in Freecad, unclear if Fusion has such a facility.

BR

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@yobtug Does NanoCAD have any option for the version it uses for DXF files? I think it's used an old version that does not support splines. Another option might be to use DWG and upload to the data panel rather than inserting a DXF.

Mark

[g-andresen]

Hi,

I'll answer your private question here:

After extruding the whole body, I can select the individual profiles for the extrude/cut operations.

günther

[browndom6]

Thank you Guenther,

I tried to follow what I saw in your video but after extruding the body the detail of the cavities on the surface disappear. On your video they are still visible. Is there anything obvious I'm doing wrong?

BR

[g-andresen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I think you have enabled the option "Auto hide sketch on feature creation" in the preferences.

Then the sketch will be disabled after the first extrusion in the browser.
So I recommend to disable this option permanently.

günther

[yobtug]

excellent, many thanks Guenther.