Yes, for this project I was given the DXF files. Aside from that, I haven’t had much luck working with text in Fusion 360. The text feature appears to be an afterthought; there is no way to fix alignment of text and certain fonts refuse to work altogether. What I’ve been doing is designing the artwork in gimp and importing a dxf to a sketch for generating the tool path or extruding a solid for 3D printing.
> On Jul 31, 2020, at 2:09 PM, Todd Zuercher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Most likely he is being given artwork from the artist in the form of DXF > files that he must turn into machine files that cut out signs. > > Other free Linux based options might be Inkscape with G-code Tools, or > Freecad. But both of them might be more painful to learn/use than what > you're doing now. Of those 2 Freecad is probably the most powerful, but > also the most cumbersome and difficult to use. > > Todd Zuercher > P. Graham Dunn Inc. > 630 Henry Street > Dalton, Ohio 44618 > Phone: (330)828-2105ext. 2031 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Albertson <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 1:02 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Default Path Blending > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Be sure links are safe. > > If you want a more simple workflow can't you stay 100% in Fusion360? I'm > trying to figure out why you'd need a .dxf file. > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 6:08 AM Thaddeus Waldner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I’m using Fusion 360 in a workflow for engraving signs. This starts >> out as a .dxf file, which I import into a fusion 360 sketch, and then >> use the trace feature to generate tool paths. >> >> As an aside, if anyone has an idea for a simpler workflow (free, of >> course) and one that perhaps doesn’t involve Windows, Please suggest >> it here. I’ve tried DXF2GCODE and although it looks like it does all >> that I need, but I couldn’t get it to work reliably, as it kept skipping >> features. >> > -- > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
