What I noticed with the PDFs was more that it was not accurate with scale. Somewhere the PDFs seems to change size, but was not always clear how to control it.<div><br></div><div>I send files directly from Adobe Illustrator to the Laser and it works very well.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If printing from SolidWorks does not seem to work. I would export as DWG rather than PDF and open it in InkScape. Line weight is key to make sure the laser does what you need so a DWG also for more editing possibilities.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ryan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:48 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:technical@artengine.ca" target="_blank">technical@artengine.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">To be honest I've never used SolidWorks. The Laser does take PDFs, but we<br>
have noticed that not all PDFs exported from every program seem to keep<br>
the right information the laser needs.<br>
<br>
My advice:<br>
First. try the PDF from Solid works, see if it does work on the laser.<br>
<br>
Second. if you have a laptop, try hooking your laptop with solidworks up<br>
to the laser and printing right from solidworks<br>
<br>
Third. Try to export a PDF from Solidworks and bring it into Inkscape and<br>
export to PDF again.<br>
<br>
Let me know if any of this works.<br>
Britta<br>
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> If you have made a drawing from the part in Solidworks, there are a<br>
> bunch of alternative formats you can save as (DWG, DXF, AI & PDF).<br>
> I think the laser will accept PDF but I have no experience with it.<br>
><br>
> Michael<br>
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> On 4/27/2012 5:26 PM, Yaroslav Malyshev wrote:<br>
>> Good afternoon.<br>
>><br>
>> I created part for my project in SolidWorks2011 student design kit,<br>
>> which I took in the lab. I want to cut this part on the laser, but<br>
>> Inkscape doesn't work with solidwork's file format. Can I use<br>
>> solidwork's drawing for laser or need to convert my drawing in format,<br>
>> which inkscape can read? If it need to do, how do it? I can't find it<br>
>> in the solidwork.<br>
>><br>
>> Cheers,<br>
>><br>
>> Malyshev Yaroslav<br>
>><br>
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