I changed the following three and it worked ()you may not need to change all three, but did and it worked)ĭimension precision level to what was the maxium value, 8Īlso go to the other tab.import/export and look at the options in the 'import style' drop down list. With the default import settings FreeCAD was rounding out the values to being all the same. The whole jar is approximately only 1 mm in its longest direction. Shoogen is correct, I didn't even think of that.

curves smaller then 10^-precision will be approximated by line segemnts or endpoints fused together by the import script.īut the file only contains line segements. Shoogen wrote:The the dimensions are very small i'd recomment to set the Draft precision (in the settings) to very high number, otherwise. Svgjar.zip (124.59 KiB) Downloaded 48 times I think GDAL drivers current only reads SVG but do not write it, although I'll check that further. Interestingly, I corresponded briefly with Adrian Przekwas and he seemed to have no problem loading the original dxf successfully into FreeCAD (0.13), but we could not get further in determining why I (and other it seems) could not. I guess I the import issue might be circumvented if the original digitising of vectors could be done in FreeCAD to an accurate scale? in QGIS), import it into FreeCAD, revolve the interior into a solid and then get volume and centre of mass calculations. Input.dxf:1: parser error : Start tag expected, ' block.Here is a SVG version that I exported from ArcGIS and which seems to display okay in Illustrator (apologies for the closed source on both counts, just what I have to hand right now.)įor background, my main aim was to take a raster version of the vessel drawing (also in the attached), digitise it at the right scale (e.g.

When I run this command on Ubuntu 18.04, the conversion succeeds, however, when I run this command inside a docker container (derived from Alpine + RUN apk -no-cache add inkscape), I get the following error: z: without gui | -l: export plain SVG | -f: input file The command I'm using is: inkscape -z -l output.svg -f input.dxf I'm trying to automate the conversion of Autocad DXF to SVG files and found out that Inkscape CLI can be used for this purpose.

Inkscape dxf import problems