Thus the only thing most of these people will typically need from FreeCAD is a better way to draw precise shapes so it can be exported to a format that can easily be imported into those softwares (i.e. It's common, inexpensive, and easy to use the typical code-generating software that either comes packaged with these devices or is ubiquitous in those "communities". With 3D printing being so popular, it might be a tendency for devs to gloss over the OTHER common newby use for FreeCAD, namely everything else like laser cutters, plasma cutters, even CNC machining and routers. dxf format will instead need to look for "flattened SVG" and/or "AutoCAD dxf 2D". I think on any help document regarding exporting, it would be helpful to new idiots like myself to note on the first paragraph not only that there are several formats to choose from, but that it's common for newcomers to NOT know about what I didn't know about, namely that common formats that tons of folks will certainly be using shall likely be mistaken in assuming they simply look for. It is pretty dead simple after all, just as I expected it should be. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. But by exporting the object created with "Shape 2D view" instead, my CAM software imports that with none of those overlapping line rubbishes. My CAM software will delete those when it can. Exporting the 3D body created overlapping outlines. What worked even better is using the "Draft" workbench to select the body then create a "Shape 2D view", then export that object rather than the 3D body. I could do that from even the part design workbench. I only needed to select a body and choose the proper format (flattened svg or autodesk dxf 2d). I didn't need to use any special workbenches (necessarily). Your important help was when you said I simply needed to choose "flattened SVG" or Autodesk dxf 2d" of course. Then I dropped back and eventually figured out what I needed. I poked around in that for a while but soon it was going off the rails. You tripped me up when you talked about needing to use "techdraw" and needing to choose an object/page created by techdraw wb. Who would have thought that the correct place to look for that option orders under the character "F". I actually answered the exact same question less than a week ago, but then formulated differently, and if you search you will probably find 100's of those questions in different posts over time.Ĭan't help but smile a bit on the inside every time I am exporting to plain svg, I totally understand that this trips new users. If you in export dropdown choose "Technical Drawing (*.svg, *.svgz, *.dxf)" you in the treeview have to choose an object/page created by techdraw wb. Now wb drawing is depreciated, and "techdraw" should be used instead, it is analogue though if you look at export options. With this in mind, the error dialogue you get probably makes sense also to you. "freecad drawing object/page" which is created by the workbench "drawing". So drawing in this context really means that you have to have a "drawing object", more specifically a The hint is in the name of the option you tried with, sure it says "drawing",īut it is not "drawing" in the sense of the spoken word drawing, and the hint is that it actually list 3 different file formats. You need to choose those specific "native" formats "Flattened SVG (*.svg)" or "Autodesk DXF 2D (*.dxf)". If want to export a sketch or draft object directly to svg or dxf. You are choosing "Drawing (*.svg, *.svgz, *.dxf)" You are using menu "file/export" and then in the drop-down for formats You mark your sketch or draft object that you want to export (also in the treeview)
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