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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: laukejas on June 03, 2019, 03:23:00 AM
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Hi,
I hope I'm posting this to the correct section of this forum. I have an SVG file generated by software called Sailcut. I am attaching that file to this post. I need to convert that file to DXF so I can import it to Onshape. I open it with Inkscape, and it looks good. I click File-SaveAs, choose DXF, and save it. Unfortunately, for some reason, the resulting DXF contains no geometry. I tried to open it with various DXF viewers, as well as import it to Onshape, but the file seems empty. Apart from Inkscape, I tried various online SVG-to-DXF converters, but they too produce an empty file.
I am new to Inkscape and I don't know much about SVG files. Can someone please take a look and tell me what have I missed?
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Welcome to the forum!
First, the image is outside the page border (far outside). That might explain some of the trouble you're having. I think the DXF conversion would convert it, even though it's outside the page border (although I don't know that for a fact), but you might not have looked outside the page border.
Also, it's huge (approx 2900 x 4600 px). So it could possibly be in the DXF file you made, but you just don't notice it, because it's larger than your screen. The image consists of a few blue lines, so it wouldn't be hard to miss them, if one of the lines doesn't pass through your screen. Maybe try scrolling around? Or zoom out?
I would start all over, and when you open the SVG in Inkscape, make sure the drawing is inside the page border, at 100% zoom. Then try the conversion again. You can set the page border to fit the drawing perfectly this way:
- Ctrl a (select all)
- Document Properties > Page tab > Resize page to contents
- File menu > Save As SVG (this way, if something goes wrong, you don't have to start all over again)
- File menu > Save As DXF