DXF. FILE. To complex for my plasma cutter...

[laurits12]

I have modeled a human head in SolidWorks and exported face as dxf./dwg. but my CNC software can't handle all these polylines or splines.

 

Does anybody know how to convert polylines to arcs or simplify splines or maybe have a better nesting program than me?

 

thanks laurits

HEAD MALE SPLINES.DXF

POLYLINES..DXF

Edited November 6, 2010 by laurits12

[stevsmith]

Hi laurits, and welcome to the forums.

I have came across this before but for the life of me I can't remember where.

 

When you are saving the dxf file in Solidworks, is there an option to save as a dxf r12 version? Im pretty sure that when you save to this format r12 cannot read splines and it converts them to lines and arcs.

[laurits12]

Hi Stevie

Thank you for your reply

I have tryed your suggestion and the result is that i get polylines.

i tryed exploding thees polylines (in autocad) and what i ended up with was small line segments (0.033mm long)

 

 

and that is also to much data to handle for my CNC nesting software

[eldon]

I listed one of your splines, and in a length of 24 units, there were 100 or so control points. The spacing of these points was very haphazard, with the lengths between control points varying from 1.5 units to 0 units.

 

Perhaps you would do better if you used Boundary to create a polyline around the whole shape, then exported that polyline at regular intervals.

[eldon]

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