Hello lovely laser cutter people… Has anyone sent their file to print and it opens in JobControl as an uneditable piece - almost like an image?
I drew it in Autocad, imported to Illustrator as a dxf (tried different years) and pdf - still no joy.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated!
@lasers & @lasertechs
You had this issue before, and we looked through the usual suspects, right? There was a thread for that with some things that were tried.
@tommen is probably the autocad guru.
try this illustator checklist
-release any clipping paths
-ungroup everything then use join on continuous segments that need it (otherwise the job will skip around each piece randomly and this will waste time)
-line width must be 0,001 in
have you got a screen shot?
The CAD software I’m used to using appears to output an ancient version of dxf files. I’ve found a useful converter that will batch convert any dxf or dwg files to 2013 dxf that Inkscape can read:
https://www.opendesign.com/guestfiles/TeighaFileConverter1
Seems to have dealt with anything I’ve thrown at it so far, although it does seem to set the line width at 1.0 pixel rather than the hairline in the program I’m exporting from.
I’ve had a hell of a time getting Draftsight to print to Job Control. It woked once and I have no idea what I did to make it work. If anyone ever manages to figure it out, let me know!
The fallback position I’ve found that works 100% of the time is to print to PDF (I use Foxit PDF printer, but there are lots of options) and open that PDF in Corel, duoble check linewieghts and then print to JC.
Try saving it as an svg
Thank you everyone for all your help & suggestions!!!
@Barnaby_Coote you saved the day. I was using the line weight drop down box in Illustrator and choose the smallest existing line from there - which was still too big. When I typed in .001 like you said it worked a treat. 