topic Exporting DXF for CNC in 3D Part & Assembly Design

Exporting DXF for CNC

kkja — Sat, 05 May 2018 08:59:09 GMT

We have a new batch of CNC programmers for our sheet metal parts. They asked me if I could export the DXF of the flat pattern without the drawing border. I guess the experienced programmers have always removed the 4 lines of the border. Is it possible to export a DXF of a drawing

Exporting DXF for CNC

DiVenti — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:00:38 GMT

Yes is very common to place a scale 1:1 flat view for CNC to use.
What we do is place a scale 1:1 flat view on top of the drawing or on a separate sheet.
This way the flat scale 1 stays with the drawing.
In your case I think the best way is to create a separate sheet without the borders (drawing format).

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Exporting DXF for CNC

BenLoosli — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:10:27 GMT

Why don't you just export the model as a DXF file. No borders, no scaling, no notes, no dimensions, just the 3D model. Most sheet metal packages take that and flatten it into a 2D view anyway.

Thank you,

Ben H. Loosli
USEC, INC.

Re: Exporting DXF for CNC

Phaethon — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 09:28:21 GMT

You have probably solved this (it's been six years now) but I'm answering in case someone else wants to know.

Below the drawing window there is a ribbon. On the left it say Sheet1, right click on that and select Setup. Then uncheck the box that says Show Format

Re: Exporting DXF for CNC

alouw — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:20:15 GMT

Much better way to deal with that problem then deleting the formats. I'm actually going to test if I can do this in my sheet metal start part.

I've been looking in to mass exports of DXF's and this was a bit of a problem.

Re: Exporting DXF for CNC

TM_12049239 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:56:00 GMT

A much better way is uninstalling Creo and using anything else.