To obtain a cutting line, draw lines and shapes on the CUTTING layer.
Your file should remember that sheet with the lines drawn. The simplest way to visualize how this will turn into your project is to imagine placing on a sheet of paper the pieces you would like to make, and then draw their outline on the sheet with a pencil. The basic part of your design are the shapes you will cut. The orange lines are ignored by the laser and at the time of calculating the production cost, they simply serve as a reference. DO NOT CANCEL the orange template before uploading the file! The layer 0 is blocked: this layer contains the template and it is not possible to insert other elements. The template is indicated by two orange perimeters: The external perimeter corresponds to the actual format of the material plate the innermost perimeter corresponds to the area actually used for laser cutting.Īll elements, cutting lines or incisions must be inscribed within the smallest perimeter. To add a vector engraving it will be necessary to draw on the corresponding layer.
To draw a shape to be cropped it is therefore sufficient to make the CUTTING layer current and draw on this layer. The layers are already set with the colors and the correct thickness of the tracks to "communicate" with the laser. Templates are in millimeters and in 1: 1 scale. If you convert the same lines in red, the laser will engrave the bird on the chosen material, and so on. In Affinity, I set the lineweight to 0pts and exported the SVG, but after going through CloudConvert to DXF and importing into SketchUp, I still get a lineweight face instead of just the single line.ĭoes anyone have any ideas about why this is happening or how to get JUST LINES?Īttached is a screenshot of what I’m talking about.The color used for the drawn lines determines what the laser will do, whether it is a cut or an engraving.įor example, if you're designing a little bird with a blue outline, the laser will cut a little bird. I’m using a Mac app called Affinity Designer as part of a method of getting raster image lines converted to vector. I thought this might be due to how the vector file line weights might be impacting the export of the SVG. In other words, where one line should be, there are two lines with butt ends that form a face of the line thickness. When I go into SketchUp > Import and import the DXF, all of the contour lines come in as a line thickness with a face instead of just lines. I converted this SVG to DXF using CloudConvert ( ). I have an SVG of all the contour lines in vector format. I am trying bring in land survey contour lines into SketchUp to build a site with.
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