[Plugin] DXF_export v0.0.4 (2011-10-28)

Gumleguf

Hi Jörg,

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but here's one problem I have.

1. I create a 100mm x 100mm rectangle with some random circles, see attached file "Untitled.skp".

2. Using your fine tool I export it as "Untitled.dxf".

3. To print out my drawing I open the .dxf file in eDrawings (from Solidworks, version 12.2.0.110) and press the print button. I then see a windows where the drawing is scaled to 1:18.3926?

4. If I change the "Active sheet" setting "To scale (1 to 1)" the result is that the drawing get's massive big - you can only just see a small corner of a circle on an A4 sized paper.

Isn't that strange? And by the way, if I print out from step 3 the actual rectangle on paper is something like 137mm x 137mm and not 100mm x 100mm.

/Greg

Untitled.skp

Untitled.dxf

cgprosjekt

Hello Jörg!
Just wanted to thank you for a wonderful plugin. We have struggeled alot with exporting .dxf files with true circle to our CNC machine software. And yours works perfect so far.
You really made my day! Thanks

br
Lars

pumplerod

Sorry, I must be missing something. Does this .rb file install into:
"/Applications/Google\ SketchUp\ 8/SketchUp.app/Contents/Plugins/"

Doing this doesn't seem to work for me. Is there another plugins directory that SketchUp 8 uses?

TIG

@pumplerod said:

Sorry, I must be missing something. Does this .rb file install into:
"/Applications/Google\ SketchUp\ 8/SketchUp.app/Contents/Plugins/"
Doing this doesn't seem to work for me. Is there another plugins directory that SketchUp 8 uses?
You have it all wrong
There are many helpful posts on the forum - including how to install 'plugins'...
Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/plugins
On a MAC this folder is the one and only location for such scripts.
They'll auto-load from there, and the tool's activation/menu/usage/etc is then as indicated in each tool's notes...

sli21

hi all
i'm a newbie so hi to all!
im trying to export the side view of a 400mm*700mm egg shape component as a dxf. when i load it up in VCarvePro instead of getting the full view i just get the 400mm wide top view. what am i doing wrong - cheers
Scott

Gumleguf

Hi Scott,

Perhaps your shape is too advanced for the DXF_export tool to handle or there are errors in your drawing.

Try to upload your Sketchup model here and perhaps someone with a Sketchup Pro version could try to export it to dxf. If it also fails your drawing is bad, if it works the DXF_export tool doesn't support your model.

/Greg

sli21

thanks greg
i couldnt even work out how to attach a file earlier - lol. (still cant work it out!)
i drew a circle in a new document and exported - no worries.
somehow i changed the axis on my model so it was actually exporting the top view. does it export any particular view by default??

i rotated my model and off it went.

thanks for the quick reply - great
i also had troublesmoothing the edges toany acceptable level. i hope to create a toolpath for my cnc so would like to get it a lot smoother. maybe not possible with SU8 Free Vers.

regard scott

Gumleguf

Hi Scot,

You are welcome. Glad you solved your problem.

If yuo right click the circle in Sketchup you should be able to select properties and define the smoothing of the edge. Default value is pretty rough (12, or so) but just change it to whatever value you need.

/Greg

TIG

If it is an arc or circle you can make it initially with lots of segments [e.g. typing 72s gives it 72 segments] OR select it and use 'Entity Info' to adjust its segment count later. BUT once an arc is incorporated in a 3d object it's no longer editable like that, and so it will mean recreating that part later... so plan ahead. Unattached other 'curves' like Bezier etc can have their segmentation changed with the edit function within Fredo's BezierTools...

Gumleguf

Yeah, what TIG said. I don't have Sketchup here, so sorry I couldn't be more precise.

sli21

thanks guys
regards scott

derei

Nice fixing on this plugin. Thank you ! It's a very useful tool for me.
If I may, I would like to ask for some feature requests as follows:
.1 -save layers (I don't know if it does it now, but I had some edges distributed on layers and all of them were saved on Layer 0 in DXF)
.2 -Save As name of the selected object (Component/Group), or Parent's name (if I select raw geometry inside a Comp/Group)

optional (.3 -Bulk Save As separate files, if several Components/Groups are selected. Each one using its own name.)

Thank you very much !

derei

is this plugin still supported/developed ?

trizwiz

You rock for putting such a great plugin online for us! We just started using it and I don't understand it all yet but I have exported my first DXF and it worked well.

jeremy_rutman

can u provide a link for the dxf export plugin?
in chrome I do not see any evidence of a link or blocked popup

sipik

Здравствуйте, у меня ArtCam PRO 9 не открывает модель ...

robertWan

If the curves are grouped, the elements move after the export to DXF.
When there are no groups it's ok, but inconvenient, edition in SU is
troublesome.
Can anyone confirm these problems?

Robert

In CAM DXF Group

In CAM DXF no group

In SU

zonian

Hello Jörg!
Wonderful plugin. Export about 99.5% of my skp file write and the remaining 0.5% was
intersperse far far away from my model. I just delete the
intersperse 0.5% and finished the dwg file manually.
Great work Thanks

MikeDragon

Finding this plugin very useful for exporting to laser cutter. The only other free plugin I found exports a circle as 24 lines (or however SketchUP is configured to draw a circle). A series of lines isn't nearly as attractive when laser cut as the point where two lines meet is visible.

Thanks for the plugin. Mike

GentlemanJosh

Is this plugin for PC only? I've copied plugin into folder but all of my plugins have a .plugin extension whereas this one is .rb. Tried both extensions neither worked. Using Sketchup Make 2016 on OS X 10.10.3