Title says it all. I’d email Support directly but my gmail is down… CC puts the whole DXF on DEFAULT. I’ve already learned to scale the DXFs by 25.4 because I work in inches and they always come in as mm.
While the mic is open, I’ll add that CC does not respect the DXF origin either. Is that expected? no 3_5wye no5frog.dxf (41.9 KB) is a typical DXF output from my CAD. That said, it’s easy enough to window-select everything and drag it by the node at (0,0) to the origin (maybe needing to put geometry there in my CAD just for that purpose…) , just fiddly to do every time.
Thank you, Will. Yes, I see that CC is aligning to the DXF origin. But I have the stock origin set at center left, whereas CC puts the DXF origin at the bottom left of the stock and not at the stock’s origin. I guess it’s a matter of getting used to how CC works, and knowing that is supposed to be how it works…
DXF is an old format, with a lot of variations, since units aren’t required/standardized, some folks treat it as unit-less.
I’ve found that importing into LibreCAD, then exporting as an SVG, then importing the SVG works best.
The origin thing was something I reported an oddity on a while back, which I think was fixed — if you have a file which has a problem, let us know and we will look into it.
And I am using a 2004 Windows port of a DOS program I started using in 1989. If it weren’t for 3-1/2 decades of drawing files accumulated (and many VCAD macros I’ve programmed over the years) I’d consider thinking about upgrading to a newer program…
