Hello! I was wondering if anyone could help? I am very new to Inkscape and am having serious issues with it so far.

I need to get an SVG output inb order to load up to a laser cutter. I have drawings in Techsoft 2d design which some of them copy and paste into Inkscape without a problem. Others however just miss off a line or two. No idea why, but there is no way i can get that line.

Even exporting as a dxf and then importing into inkscape doesnt make a difference with this glitch.

Any ideas? I am using Windows Vista with Inkscape 0.48

Any help would be appreciated. I have no idea if i can draw these images from fresh in inkscape.

Thanks

Al

I am having real problems pasting a drawing from a 2d tech soft design drawing. Sometimes a drawing will copy and paste fine, but othertimes half of the lines are missing. Has anyone had this problem before? are there any solutions?

The same happens when i import as a dxf. Although strangely the opposite appears. IE those bits that wont copy and paste!

Thanks

Alastair

Does the problem show up on a dxf viewer? Just to be sure if it's an exporting problem of techsoft, or an importing problem of inkscape.
Either way you can combine the svg and the dxf imports, to have a full drawing.

Hi.

Could we have a look at a file that fails please?
Much easier to do troubleshooting that way!

RGDS
Ragnar

Thanks Ragstian,

The forum wont allow me to attach a dxf file or a dtd file. Can I email then to you?

Thanks

Al.

You can attach any format if you zip it and if it's not bigger than the forum's size limit.

note: this is a person new to the forum, so the first several posts and/or uploads are moderated.
May I suggest to Arkdesign to upload to a free uploading site and then put the link here in a post that people can follow? (There are several threads about which sites to use and how to do it, though it's fairly easy), here's one place I use: Image Hosting http://imgh.us/index.php

Also, just a quick thought - are you able to do a 'paste special' when you paste, where you can click on your paste icon and it brings up several options - try using the various options to see if any bring in all the data. One option is to paste the data with all the original effects/formatting, I've heard this called this 'paste special' in some software.

flamingolady wrote:note: this is a person new to the forum, so the first several posts and/or uploads are moderated.
aMay I suggest to Arkdesign to upload to a free uploading site and then put the link here in a post that people can follow? (There are several threads about which sites to use and how to do it, though it's fairly easy), here's one place I use: Image Hosting http://imgh.us/index.php

Also, just a quick thought - are you able to do a 'paste special' when you paste, where you can click on your paste icon and it brings up several options - try using the various options to see if any bring in all the data. One option is to paste the data with all the original effects/formatting, I've heard this called this 'paste special' in some software.

I'm not sure what you're suggesting flamingolady. Even new members can attach files. And attachments, as part of any message, are approved along with the message. So if the op had attached anything, it would be already approved, along with the message. I think the problem is the file format. DXF and DTD are not allowed here. Also not sure what you mean by "paste special'. Maybe something you're thinking of in GIMP?

So Alastair, you're pasting a drawing that you made in another program, into Inkscape? I'm actually surprised that works at all, lol. What is the format of the drawing? I was going to suggest that maybe you didn't select those lines that are missing, when you copied. But you said that exporting as DXF and importing into Inkscape doesn't work any better? Depending on how you made the drawing, and how you copied it, and how that programs exports to DXF, it seems reasonable to me that the missing lines might be outside the page border.

The content that is successfully pasted or imported, is it still vector? If the original drawing is in a raster format, you''ll have to convert to vector, to be used in the cutter.

Of course, you're welcome to upload files anywhere, and give us a link to it. But for now, you could attach the SVG file here. If you would please, export from that other program, then Import into Inkscape (or Open in Inkscape, if that will work) then save as SVG and upload. We can learn a lot from the SVG file. And really, it's all that most of us would have knowledge about. If we need the DXF file, we'll ask you to upload it and give us the link