I tried for literally hours today and could not find a workflow to get an easily editable vector file from a CAD drawing.
I was just trying to get color details in for printing.
I can export my drawings as pdf, ai, dxf (splines and poly lines) and all I ever get are line segments that I can not join any way other than one at a time. fine for a small file maybe but thousands of nodes is not happening one at a time.
I saw my old post from years back making the stamp, I hit the same roadblock and just used the segments as cut lines, but now I need to use color fills.
I’m wondering if this extension might be helpful to you. It primarily about getting different vector path colors that can be made into different settings with a laser. I’ll poke around more to see if it has the fill property you were looking for.
Yes, you can set it for this. Here is video intro:
The output in generally an SVG and doesn’t have all the spline issues.
Kinda odd, I guess I need to learn how to work with dimensions in a vector program. I have always used offset lines and center lines but dimensions always seem super wonky. I spent about an hour in CAD, oddly enough most of that was dealing with importing and moving vector logos around. Then I spent several hours trying to Get the CAD back to the Vector. It sucks because it is sooooo close. I have nodes I can move and they are all in the right place. I can stroke and un-stroke them, but they are not connected so no fill. There is no selecting all and fusing overlapping points. The CAD export has "fuse points within X distance, and make poly lines but inkscape chokes if you use that.
Yeah to include the dims you need to make a drawing and from there you can export your drawing as a PDF if you want them. Best you can get with a DXF is some center lines I believe.
