why does flexi dxf files and line segments

[gieseguy]

am looking for answers to why flexi sign pro dxf files come into other programs segmented. I have a vender using a laser with corelx5 and he says my files are coming in segmented and he has to go in an join the segments. anyone encountered this?

 

[J Hill Designs]

does flexi have any dxf export settings? I know in omega you can specify line segments or bezier arcs

 

[gieseguy]

it has two settings convert to outlines or save as arcs not sure what it does if you don't select one of these

 

[J Hill Designs]

One would guess that 'save as arcs' um saves as arcs?

 

[gieseguy]

lets hope so i guess i was thinking straight lines aren't arcs so not sure what saving as arcs was supposed to do lets hope it is that simple thanks a lot for the input

 

[signage]

In CAD terms it is Poly Line and Poly Arc

 

[gieseguy]

so Brian, what does poly line and poly arc do to the file is poly line make it segmented?

 

[signage]

Polyline

Polyarc is an arc drawen between two points with a known radius.

 

[gieseguy]

thanks for the input. maybe I need to address this to the flexi group but anyone have specific info on the two export options whether one or the other will keep the file unsegmented when imported as there are both lines and arcs in the drawing

 

[J Hill Designs]

nope. just exported a file from flexi as dxf using save as arcs. it was segmented. but when opened in omega there was an option to autojoin which did as suspected.

Since your laser guy uses corel, why cant you just export eps for him?

 

[gieseguy]

yeah i had sent him an eps already thinking that would work he isn't very savy on the computer so we will see it is frustrating though the way it gets segmented