Jiggsaw Puzzle DXF.

[kevin leasure]

Howdy folks, new guy here, i would like to know if anyone would happen to have a nice puzzle layout in a DXF file, I DO NOT have coreldraw, unfortunately, and need to get it, so for now i am stuck with my autocadd 2002 and my Engravelab. i appreciate any help i can get. thanks guys.

Kevin

[Duane Parcells]

Kevin

Do you have a size and / or number of pieces in mind. Here is a 4" by 6" saved in Autocad 2002 dxf format. This is exported out of CorelDraw 13. Had to zip the file due to size.
Duane

[John Noell]

Here's one with a few more pieces.

[kevin leasure]

these worked great guys, any chance there is one floating around with a few mor pieces, i have been put to a challenge from a customer and am not letting this one win. any help is greatly appreciated.

Kevin

[Dave Johnson29]

any chance there is one floating around with a few mor pieces

Hi Kevin, For 40-bucks you can create your own... http://www.oberonplace.com/products/jigsaw/index.htm These may have a free trial period where you can create some. I have not tried the stuff on that website, but it looks interesting.

[John Noell]

How many more pieces do you want?

[kevin leasure]

i am looking to something around a 10x10 with like 150 pieces. anything close would be great. thanks alot guys, you are life savers

[Kevin Groenke]

Me too!

Does anybody have any larger (500-1500pcs) .dxf or .dwg puzzle templates or, better yet, a tool to make the template/hatch pattern?

We're in an architecture model shop, so CorelDraw isn't in the house, Illustrator is available.

Puzzles will be plotted images up to 18"x32" (ULS X660) spray glued or adhesive filmed to .10" chipboard or 1/8"bb.

Thanks if you can help!

-kg

[Dan Hintz]

There are a couple of commercial puzzle generators out there, under $50 if memory serves, can't think of any names off the top of my head. I know one is listed under the Corel plug-ins section on Corel's site, though I don't know if Illustrator can use Corel plug-ins.

[Dee Gallo]

If anyone is interested, I made this tessellation just for fun. Every piece is identical and they interlock. On the jpeg, you can see some ideas for making the pieces into individual objects.

It's just something different in the puzzle world...certainly not very difficult.

cheers, dee

[Dan Hintz]

Try this site to experiment with your own tessellations:
www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/Tessellate/

M.C. Escher made some really great tessellations in some of his artwork... (big Escher fan here)

[Ryan Pridgeon]

Dee,
Could you post the cdr in v12?

Thanks

If anyone is interested, I made this tessellation just for fun. Every piece is identical and they interlock. On the jpeg, you can see some ideas for making the pieces into individual objects.

It's just something different in the puzzle world...certainly not very difficult.

cheers, dee

[Mark Ross]

Two .zip files, all files are in .cdr X3 format. 500 piece 20X25 , 1024 piece 32 by 32 and 2500 piece files with different patterns.

[Dee Gallo]

Dee,
Could you post the cdr in v12?

Thanks

I knew the minute I posted that I forgot to save it in v 10 for everyone... sorry! Here it is, have fun with it.

dee

[Kevin Groenke]

Thanks A TON for all the files, got something to go on now.

I don't have CorelDraw or Illustrator at home but I found an open source vector drawing app that imports and exports cdr, dxf, eps, svg, pdf, odg and a bunch of other formats.

Inkscape - so far so good.

Referring page:
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Open-...-or-Corel-Draw

here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/

in file
0.47pre1

Inkscape-0.47pre1-1.win32.exe

-kg