Rapid Prototyping is the Most Fun Ever
I just whipped up this design in inkscape. Inkscape isn’t too hard to use if you’re not measuring things. I just eyeballed everything, which required some tweaking. I outputted a dxf file, uploaded it to my new little archive of public lazzzor files. Then on the lazzzor computor, I imported it into CorelDraw and set the vector settings for cardboard which is 30/50/100, turned on the compressor for the air assist, turned on the filter, screamed “FIRE THE LASER!” and pushed the green button.
Autodesk Inventor 2008 Service Pack 3 Hotfix - ID: DL11654069
Late last month Autodesk released (Published date: 2008-07-31) a Hotfix for Autodesk Inventor (Professional or Suite) 2008 SP3: Hotfix - Corrupt DXFOUT translation of hole note text and leader created in Break view Don’t forget to download and read the accompanying Readme file. The below is taken from the download page: This hotfix addresses an issue where hole notes on leaders in a broken view do not translate correctly when the drawing is output as a DXF file. Related posts: Autodesk I
Batch convert drawings to DXF 2000 format using SmartPurger
SmartPurger has support to run a script or AutoLISP file and here is a sample I showed a client how to do to save drawings to AutoCAD 2000 DXF file format. It can easily be change to save to other DXF versions like AutoCAD 2007 DXF, AutoCAD 2004 DXF or AutoCAD R12 DXF. Here is the code for the Script file: (command “._saveas” “_DXF” “_V” “_R2000″ “” “”) (while (wcmatch (getvar “cmdnames”) “*SAVEAS*”) (command “_y”) ) (if (not (equal 0 (getvar “dbmod”))) (progn (while (not (wcm
Font 2 DXF
Create a text in any installed true type font and save the result as dxf file. So you can plot the font to use it for engravings etc. You only enter the text and click on “Save as DXF file…”. The text will be saved as polygon line information.