Hey

I've been looking around for a reliable way to get object & vehicle diagrams into blender, so I found this extraordinary file called the DXF format which for a long time, has allowed me to export diagrams with a reliable degree of accuracy until it recently broke.

I knew that there were .dxf exporters for Inkscape, so I looked around for the most modern & up to date exporter, to try to get the best results, and I found a few, but they seem to require something called "lxml" to be downloaded from http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml/

The message came was the following:

The fantastic lxml wrapper for libxml2 is required by inkex.py and therefore this extension.Please download and install the latest version from http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml/, or install it through your package manager by a command like: sudo apt-get install python-lxml

Technical details:
No module named lxml

While I could find the lxml, I couldn't find out how to actually install the package.

G'day,

On Windows systems, other users have had success with lmxl errors by re-installing Inkscape 0.92.2, particularly if Inkscape was most recently updated from 0.91.

Do I need to install lxml from http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml/ or should I just reinstall?

I'd reinstall first... a recent user with a similar issue seemed to get going with just a uninstall/reinstall.

There may be some relevance to 32 bit, 64 bit exe or msi, etc., so I'd try the same as I used before.

TD

A full uninstall and reinstall of the Inkscape program is necessary on Windows when you update Inkscape, as tylerdurden said.
If you do a full uninstall, it doesn't matter which version you were using before.
Link: https://inkscape.org/en/release/0.92.2/windows/

Yeah, I did that and I get a new error message.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "inch_dxf_outlines.py", line 200, in <module>
e.affect()
File "inkex.py", line 283, in affect
self.effect()
File "inch_dxf_outlines.py", line 118, in effect
h = inkex.unittouu(self.document.getroot().xpath('@height',namespaces=inkex.NSS)[0])
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'unittouu'

I'm using http://www.bigbluesaw.com/saw/big-blue-saw-blog/general-updates/big-blue-saws-dxf-export-for-inkscape.html