hey guys I am having a problem loading a drawing into sheetcam…right now I use inkscape to do my drawing and convert it into a DXF file…it has always worked before and about 3 weeks ago is stopped working…I noticed inkscape has changed to DXF r14 and previously was DXF r13…was wondering if this could be my problem…I have attached a photo of what comes up when I try and load a drawing into sheetcam…the sheepcam version I have is 3.0.16…anyone have any ideas on whats goin on with this?
It is very unusual for a drawing to crash SheetCam. Could you send me a sample drawing so I can try to figure out what is going on.
I am fairly new to all this so any help is good help as I am clueless on this problem…thanks! here is the drawing
I tried the drawing on the Windows version of SheetCam and it did load. Looking at your screen shot it looks like you are using a Linux version. Which version of SheetCam are you using (look in Help->about).
Your drawing appears to have a lot of overlapping outlines.In other words you have lines on top of each other. This makes it very difficult for SheetCam to understand the drawing. In Inkscape select an outline and try deleting it. If it disappears, hit undo. If you keep repeating this process for all of the outlines you will probably find that you can delete quite a lot without making a visible difference to the drawing.
It doesn’t open up in Corel very well either. Lots of issues. Can you save it as a SVG?
Had better luck
I went on sheetcam to check which one I have and it wasn’t clear which one it was or im missing something buy here is a pic of what came up…the sheet cam version is 3.0.16…thanks for the overlapping lines info I will try that out and see what happens…do you have to do that on all drawings for sheetcam to read the drawing better?
ok this sounds really dumb but how do you select outlines in inkscape to delete them if they are overlapping or where can I find a tutorial on stuff like this…ok stop laughing at me all you veteran drawers and cnc operators…lol…I am pretty new to all this…only have had my cnc plasma table for about 3 months and am trying to learn all I can about drawing and operating a cnc plasma to make quality products for my future customers 