Inkscape

Spurious line segments when saved as .DXF

Bug #1430272 reported by Jon Scott on 2015-03-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1429184: Dxf Export - Random intersect lines. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Inkscape	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I create a drawing, all text and shapes are converted to paths and saved as inkscape native .SVG
Then save again as AutoCAD R14 .DXF to import into Lasercut 5.3
When imported into the laser software additional line segments appear which were not visible when created.
I have also tried importing into a CAD package and the additional lines are still there.

I am using windows 7 home premium 64bit
inkscape 0.91 r13725 64bit

I have also done the same on a similar machine but with 0.48 and had no issue.

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Jon

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Jon Scott (jonscott53) wrote on 2015-03-10:

Alchemists.zip Edit (522.6 KiB, application/zip)

su_v (suv-lp) on 2015-03-10

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added: dxf exporting

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Alvin Penner (apenner) wrote on 2015-03-10:

hello Jon, thanks for the bug report.
as far as I can tell, this is a duplicate of Bug 1429184
there are two possible options here:
- simplest option is to uncheck the output option box that says 'use LWPOLYLINE output'
- second option is to use a new fix posted yesterday. The new files for dxf_outlines.py and dxf_outllines.inx are available at:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/files/head:/share/extensions/

with these new files you can use the LWPOLYLINE output. Just a word of warning, though, the new version assumes that the standard Inkscape resolution is 96dpi, not 90dpi.