Posted by jam68 on
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/LibreCAD-DXF-Compatibility-with-LaserCut-tp5706694p5706732.html

All:

I wanted to give an update and tell you what I found to work. 1st off - LibreCAD is very good for 2D work. I am very pleased. I updated to 2.03Alpha with updates as soon as they are available. I am running on an Ubuntu machine. I have been able to crash it a few times but that is anticipated with the Alpha release.

The LaserCut 5.3 software is pretty limited. I found that it uses TTF fonts but actually explodes the fonts into lines/arc segments when it inserts text. That was a hint when I saved a DXF out of LaserCut 5.3 and brought it back to LibreCAD.

I then created a DXF with the latest LibreCAD version. I saved it as R12, 2000, and 2007. LaserCut could only recognize the R12 and 2000 versions. I then used the explode text feature of LibreCAD and tried the R12 and 2000 DXFs. It recognized it as text but the fonts were totally messed up. It was interpreting it as some strange font. Finally, I used the explode block feature on the text. When I explode the text using this feature the text is turned into lines/arcs. When I save to R12 or 2000 LaserCut 5.3 can import and access them directly with no issues.

This is a very good work around. I can now use LibreCAD to create and manage drawings for the laser cutter.

Thanks for your help - hopefully someone else will benefit from this.

B/R - Joe.