I work in a manufacturing environment and I have been using Corel Draw X6 to export designs for laser cutting. The issue is that when I export some DXF's or DWG's the line quality is bad. For instance I exported a line drawing of a plate to be lasered and all of the holes that I drew were warped looking and even had some flat sides. and the corners are mangled and rounded. I have tried exporting with every different option but it does not look any better. I dont remember having these problems with the older versions. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks -Shawn
(Background: I have been using CorelDraw since version 5, but have only been using it for manufacturing in the past 2 years)
shawn hines said:The issue is that when I export some DXF's or DWG's the line quality is bad. Any ideas or suggestions?
2 commercial macros offer improved DXF Exports:
James Leonard's STANDARD DXFToolJames Leonard's PRO DXFTool
eCut for CorelDRAW
Jeff Harrison said:2 commercial macros offer improved DXF Exports:
My DXFtool license is expired at the moment, but here is result for e-cut:. Click on image for clear version.
shawn hines said: I work in a manufacturing environment and I have been using Corel Draw X6 to export designs for laser cutting. The issue is that when I export some DXF's or DWG's the line quality is bad. For instance I exported a line drawing of a plate to be lasered and all of the holes that I drew were warped looking and even had some flat sides. and the corners are mangled and rounded. I have tried exporting with every different option but it does not look any better. I dont remember having these problems with the older versions. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks -Shawn (Background: I have been using CorelDraw since version 5, but have only been using it for manufacturing in the past 2 years)
could you provide a sample of the art in cdr? I'd like to test something. there may be a way to get the curves right.
Here is a link to the file.
http://wikisend.com/download/909640/Backup_of_ZA Thirty Bracket v3.cdr
I looked at DXFTools. Do you guys know the difference between standard and professional?
X6 (and X7) both seems to create good DXF files here, using the 2008-2013 preset.
If I re-import the DXF into CorelDraw, I see proper curves and circles. No flat sides. Only possible error I see is that the corners have a slight chamfer -- which might possibly be a limitation of the DXF format.
If you are seeing something substantially worse, it is possible that the program that is reading the DXF is causing the problem, but I don't have any way to test a DXF other than by importing it into CorelDraw.