Export file for CNC router program – SketchUp

Greetings All,

I lately designed a curved form in sketchup and exported it as a .dxf and a .dwg file considering that my buddy on the cupboard store might merely import the file into his CAD based mostly CNC program and lower out my piece with minimal effort. This failed miserably and he needed to redraw it in his program.

Is it attainable for me to design in sketchup and export a usable file for a CNC program? The precise program he makes use of is named Maestro.

Thanks in your perception.

Cheers

Stuart

What a part of it failed?

Did you do a 2D export or a 3D export? For cuves, arrange the digital camera to Parallel Projection and the suitable normal view. Then use the 3D dxf export.

Second DaveR on 3D dxf export

Ash

One of many recordsdata opened up within the CNC program as an absolute mess, I cant bear in mind precisely, simply that it was clearly not going to work.

One among them appeared to have labored but it surely regarded prefer it was a skewed picture, which after studying the replies to this, leads me to imagine that it exported within the orientation the picture was at on the time of export (ie: not parallel projection/normal view). Additionally, it’s attainable I did it as a 2D export.

I’ll attempt once more!

Thanks!

Take a look at https://www.getfabber.com/

It’s the closest factor to a whole CNC export answer that I’m conscious of.

Hope this helps

ChrisD

Easy DXF means that you can create easy DXF which can be optimized for the cupboard making trade.

I tried what DaveR mentioned to do, and that is what I bought when viewing it on Chrome DXF viewer…I attempted a number of different issues, they usually all ended up as messy as this one.

ugh