It doesn't make any sense why I should need to do that, as my drawings are produced to a 1:1 scale. Those programs were Illustrator, a CAD (only a free demo) and Inkscape. When the DXF was imported to 3 separate programs with 100 scaling and having 1 unit 1 mm, all programs got 31,75 mm wide rectangle. When I saved it as DXF, the base unit was selected to be 1 mm. If I manually scale all the objects up by about 375%, then it seems to import into LaserCut the right size. I made in Inkscape a strokeless 120 mm wide rectangle. but they are never the right size.ĭoes anyone have any idea how to get the DXF to properly represent the size of my drawing? I've never worked with DXFs before.

When I import the file into LaserCut, the paths are all the right shape. When saving to DXF, it prompts me for the base unit, and I chose mm. I've tried to save the SVG to DXF both using Save As. I've also tried changing around the scaling factor, and that made no difference. In the document properties, I have the scaling set to 1:1, 1 user unit to 1 mm. I've verified all the paths are the correct size. As per the LaserCut page regarding Inkscape support, I have the document properties unit set to mm, all my paths are sized in mm. I have my SVG file all complete, scaled to the full size (1:1). I first tried installing in my user Inkscape extensions dir and received the following errors: - Traceback (most recent call last): File '/home//.inkscape/extensions' into the main Inkscpae extensions dir '/usr/share/inkscape/extensions' Now I do not get any errors but the DXF file that gets saved is 0 byte.I have an SVG file that I'm converting to DXF to feed to a laser cutter via the LaserCut 5.3 software.

I understand that you run Windows, do you know of anyone who is using it on Linux? I'm running into some trouble getting it working on Inkscape v0.46 under Ubuntu v8.04 LTS. Hello, Switcher, Thank you for the plugin, it works wonderfully on my Windows system.

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