Jeff,
What kind of file is the knife, fork and spoon?
At this point it really doesnāt matter. Any will do. I am looking to cut out slots in a plastic and wood for the kitchen stuff. However I donāt want to have to measure it. I am taking a picture and putting a scale on the picture. once that is done, I should just scale the whole drawing to the size of scale. Then create a outline of it. Import that into easle, then create g code. At least that is how I envision it.
can someone help me out and look at my dxf file I have tried everything to convert it to a svg and open in easel but it just wont load like the file may be to large or something,im new to all of this so I do not know much about what Iām doing ready_to_cut.dxf (1.9 MB)
can you post one of pictures? I think I get what youāre talking about
Chris, how big is the drawing supposed to be? I loaded into Inkscape and itās 70 different parts or 1140 objects, I donāt think easel can handle that.
its a lamp so it should be smaller than 31"x31"
In Inkscape I imported it at 1 to 1 scale and it comes in at 34.975in wide and 24.669in high, It loads into Easel but very very very slow and then crashes
that is the same thing I get in easel then it crashes on me
To many objects, the drawing need to broken down into 2-4 separate files
ok thank you for the help,I will try that
Glenn, I am really sorry I fell off the face of the earth trying to get our business up and running. I recently started back up on the posts and am responding to lots of old posts.
When i first did this i thought u were nuts!!!
But after resizing i saw everything was exactly in the right place!!!
Thanks @PhilJohnson Saved me 2 days of work!
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I open the DXF with Librecad (free) then export->svg works great !
ā¦ yes, thatās the way but if in metric units I have to underline that five decimal numbers were the must in order to get exact Inkscape measures on itā screen (my example was: 0.997537 )
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Not. Imorting test square 100x100 mm I was getting 100.265 x 100.265mm . Didnāt work enough precise with only two decimals
I seeā¦ Iām not working to this kind of precision ! 
Have since started using Cut2D Pro. While I havenāt tested the easel measurements, the end products are accurate to Ā±0.2mm - in plywood with a 1/8 downcut bit
Iāve been pulling my hair out as I too am having the ācheck for open paths and join them before importingā error when trying to an inside or outside outline. This is from a dxf file created in Inkscape.
I have followed the video that @MidnightMaker kindly added to this thread and have joined all nodes which are adjacent.
This is clearly to do with something I am doing wrong as I know that the softawre is smarter then me - anybody got any ideas.
DXF file attached.
chef_knife_copy.dxf (12.6 KB)
Did you design the knife in Inkscape? The lines arenāt connected
I made each line a different color for visual.
yes - drawn in Inkscape (itās all new to me).
I have tried combining the lines and connecting the nodes but always get the same issue.
I imported your DXF into CorelDraw and converted the lines to objects, then saved as an SVG then imported into Easel. Iām not sure how its done in InkScape.