DXFlaserutils

tools to clean/modify OpenSCAD (and other) DXF output for reuse. Originally intended for driving simple laser cutters.

Source

This is a verbatim copy of

http://www.shaddack.twibright.com/projects/sw_DXFlaserutils/dxflaserutils.tar.gz

from 2015. The website is no longer available and I had the archive lurking on my computer.

Author

Unknown: no obvious credits are in the source or what's left of the website on the Internet Archive. I (scruss) did not write this, but I have found the code useful on occasion. You might, too.

Licence

Also unknown. The documentation notes:

… No warranty. License to be determined, something open, no idea yet what flavor.

Building

A few hints are in the source code:

cc -lm -o dxf2mvg dxf2mvg.c
cc -lm -o dxfline2poly dxfline2poly.c
cc -o dxfsize dxfsize.c

dxflist is a symbolic link to dxfsize on systems that support it.

Documentation

is archived here: OpenSCAD-DXF-MoshiDraw tool

Potential use case

dxfline2poly can be used to transform OpenSCAD DXF output to a form that the Fiona spatial library can understand. By default, fiona dump file.dxf produces a very simple JSON stream that can be put to further use more easily than trying to understand DXF.

No issues/pull requests accepted

Please fork and maintain your own derivatives.

scruss / DXFlaserutils