#Freecad dxf importer how to#
#Freecad dxf importer software#
#Freecad dxf importer code#

This is a small project: half a dozen programmers in their spare time, most of them not contributing fo months at a time. As for missing documentation, to which you've hinted many times in your posts, well yeah. But please consider that no one ever said that FreeCAD is complete, not by a long shot.

#Freecad dxf importer software#

I'm sorry if it's been frustrating, and it was for me as well 2 years ago when I started devoting time to it, and the software has evolved A LOT since. It's better to create it within the software.Ījayre wrote:But my inability to import anything and use it after investing eight to 10 hours over this weekend is completely frustrating. Importing 2D geometry in FreeCAD is still not very reliable. Although there is no guarantee this will work. But what you can do is use the Extrusion tool from the Part workbench instead. The Part Design tools only work with sketches and Draft objects (BSplines being an exception). (unfortunately I was unable to get anything out of this file, as I was not able to create a face with the horse profile)Īfter that no matter whay you do, you cannot pad imported entities. Which is why I said it would be best to configure your DXF export in Solid Edge (or whatever you used to produce the DXF with) not to export as a block. I got more than 400 and had to select manually a whole set and discard the rest. One is a bug with downgrading the block that produces about 4 times the amount of edges in it.

#Freecad dxf importer how to#

Apparently I need wires not lines but I can't find details of how to do the conversion. I can't seem to convert the lines into a '2d shape' for padding. But my inability to import anything and use it after investing eight to 10 hours over this weekend is completely frustrating.Īll I wanted to do was create a 3D heart shape with a gently curved top surface and my wife's name across the bottom, but there seems to be so many stumbling blocks to complete this task in FreeCAD.Ījayre wrote:But then I am stuck again. I really would like to be able to use FreeCAD as it has Python scripting. Then when I try to convert to a solid I get the error 'not a shell'. Import into FreeCAD, convert mesh to shape and it displays ok. I then entered some text into Google Sketchup, extruded it and exported as STL. Also the draft workbench doesn't seem to display a grid. Next I tried entering text into the draft workbench - doesn't display anything. Importing a simple pentagon DXF created in CorelDRAW results in bsplines in FreeCAD - no straight lines. I tried the newer build from Petar and I was able to downgrade the DXF into lines. I could draw each of the edges by drawing lines between vertices but I would prefer to input vertices and faces and draw the mesh that way.Ĭan anyone tell me what I am doing wrong or another way to do what I am trying to do, export meshes from python and open them in FreeCad.Thanks. FreeCAD is totally new to me so maybe I have to enable something in FreeCAD before I can see the mesh. However, when I open the output in FreeCAD nothing is displayed. _levels = 0 # do not subdivide cube, 0 is the default value

#Freecad dxf importer code#

I found the ezdxf interface ( ) which writes to dxf format and I ran the below code (this is one of the examples provided there) import ezdxfĭoc = ezdxf.new('R2000') # MESH requires DXF R2000 or later I am making 3D models of houses using python and I would like to visualise the output using FreeCAD.