corel x7 to lasercut 5.3

[Keith Cox]

gentlemen,

thanks for all of the responses. my corel won't export to .dxf so i'm exporting as .bmp into laser cut. my laser came with a computer with laser cut already installed. i'm designing on my computer in corel and using a thumbdrive to get it to laser cut. this is what was recommended to me by the previous owner and he cut some pretty elaborate stuff.

i'll give it another shot tomorrow. when i convert to bitmap inside of corel, the red outlined box turns to black after being red in design mode. maybe its just being a little buggy. i'll restart it and report back.

you don't export the file you save as file.dfx hope this helps
coxy

[Kev Williams]

Your Lasercut sees bitmaps pretty much as photographs, not vector graphics, this is why it's everything is black--

I'm not sure why your Corel won't export to DXF?
Here's a screenshot of the the procedure- first, note I grouped the 2 legend plates to export first,
then click the 'export button'... The 'save file as' dialog comes up... pick a folder to save to, and choose a file name...
then click on 'files of type' and choose "DXF Autocad", then click the 'export' button, and your DXF is now saved...
todxf.jpg
-note below and partially hidden by the 'DXF' arrow, 'selected only' is checked, this means only the 2 plates I selected
will be exported, nothing else in the Corel window will export...

Now to go to your Lasercut, then locate and import the DXF you just saved...
I saved the above file as "0.dxf" (one of my 'default' names as I do this many times a day)-
note the plates show up in the preview screen...
todxf2.jpg

-only the plates I selected imported, all colors intact...
todxf3.jpg


I have a one-button macro that 'dumps' anything I select in Corel directly into my LaserCad program, so I never import DXF's-- this is actually the first time I've ever done it!

[Bert Kemp]

In Corel you save your design as a DXF you then open Lasercut 5.3 and IMPORT not export IMPORT the dxf file you just saved in corel. in lasercut you calculate then hit delete all then download current and the dxf file will load in to lasercut. Then you tell it which lines to cut and what to engrave.

If you try to import a bmp all you will be able to do is engrave it because it s a picture.Like Kev said a jpeg.

[Tony Lenkic]

Jud,

Tell us more about your Coreldraw. Is it Home & Student version? This may be the reason you can not export/import other types of files.
What happens is you hold down "CTRL" key and press "E" (short for export).

[jud dinsmore]

tony - that's the version i have and i cannot save or export to .dxf. i didn't know that going into it.

bmp seems to work fine. i haven't revisited getting the layout to work with multiple colors in corel, as i have made it work by designing the logo and text in corel, and created my boxes in lasercut.

[Joseph Shawa]

I have the student version of X6. Not a problem to export or save to .DXF

[Tony Lenkic]

Jud, try this......

When you have Corel file on the workpage go to "FILE / SAVE AS/ DXF-AutoCad" ---- give it a name and location you are saving it to (such as desktop).