Hi Jim
Aaron was also kind enough to answer my dxf related questions last week. He showed me where the source code is for the scaling. I have a long thread dxf related questions I can forward. I am reading though the low level details from some documentation listed in the scripts comments.
"In the tarball the python script lives in share/extensions/dxf_outlines.py. In ubuntu I'd guess it lives in /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/dxf_outlines.py."
Hi Aaron
I am not a great programmer but fortunately I can program in Python. Do you think the dxf output from Inkscape can be made useful for standard CAD stuff? I was going to write a script with a GUI to allow people to control the scaling?
Thanks-Patrick
Aaron Spike wrote:
Jim Ford wrote:
Are the dxf files created by Inkscape's export non standard or otherwise 'funny'? Does anyone know of a 'workaround' for this problem, please?
The DXF files exported by Inkscape export curves as standard DXF SPLINEs. Some software is not able to handle such NURB curves. An option would be to decompose the curves into polylines, though this would make the output noticeably slower and less exact. Please recognise that the DXF output from Inkscape is not expected to be generally useful DXF output. It was developed to suit the needs of a very specific community of users and is labeled as such.
Aaron Spike
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