Fairly new to Glowforge & Inkscape and after a few hours looking, I can’t find a solution to my problem. I’m fairly certain something got screwed up in the process of converting my dxf into svg, but I’m not experienced enough to know what.
My process:
Exported a sketch from Autodesk Inventor to dxf
Converted dxf to svg (Inkscape kept reporting a failure when trying to import the dxf directly)
Tweaked the svg to color the lines and add a fillet.
Loaded the svg into Glowforge and everything looked good
It took me a bit to figure out that I had to look at each layer glowforge saw. You have to make sure each h one is set to engrave, score or cut. The one I did, it wouldn’t recognize one of them as engravable so I used score which actually worked well for my project.
This is a long shot but looking at the art there are areas that didn’t cut that look like there are duplicate lines - they’re showing up a different shade of purple when I upload it. I can’t check the art because I don’t have that program on this computer - but if there are duplicate lines it will not do anything.
Try https://convertio.co/image-converter/ to go from dxf to SVG (or many other formats). It should give you a good first step. The image looks pretty good to me but needs some clean-up after conversion.
Just a note, if the hole in the top tab is meant so it can hang from a string, you might want to move it down to the center of that tab, otherwise it will likely break thru the top.
I’m glad you resolved it! I’m going to close this thread. If you run into any other trouble, please start a new topic, or email us at support@glowforge.com. We’re here to help!
