I'm surprised as well that my 3dm original opens up empty. I think I can say without insulting anyone, that I'm surprised Autodesk, an american company beside that, defaults to milimeters instead of inches and to Y up coordinate system. I'm sorry, I'm a french speaking person and my english vocabulary is not as good as I would like. It's not a big deal as I can almost as easily export to an SVG file if needed. Now the dxf and dwg file both open with the wrong orientation and in milimeters but no element missing this time. The first time I tried, I used 2 different programs to export the dxf and the dwg files may be that's the reason some data was lost in the process. The dxf and dwg files where exported from the same program this time using the original 3dm file.

Since Fusion translations are done in the cloud on upload, this requires a UI for the upload process that accounts for DXF units.Ĭan you send me some dxf files at phil eichmiller at autodesk dot com? Please include a reference image that includes at least one dimension so I know what size the DXF should be after are the files. We need to do a better job of a) reading units in DXF if they in fact exist (which is not always the case) and b) allowing you to set the units if they don't. Some software does use a variable that can carry unit labels in DXF. We are working on this and your data will help.

So what Fusion is doing is interpreting 6 units as 6 cm.

AutoCAD LT would gladly display 6 generic units as cm, mm, inch or whatever you say they are in AutoCAD LT. It's a lot like paper plotting, you have to tell the plotter what a 'unit' is equal to in order to get a 1:1 plot. It's up to the software to interpret the single DXF unit as in, mm, etc.So in your old software 6 generic units are labeled and treated as inch, but are in fact generic units. DXF was created to be unitless, like DWG.

Inkscape drawing to dxf