DXF viewer recommendations

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To my annoyance, it looks like F360 cannot [or I do not know how] print in 1:1 scale.
I use 1:1 printed drawings for the fabrication of templates.

The suggested method is to save as a DXF and print from a viewer??

Suggestions for a dxf viewer for windows or browser that is not full of bad stuff?

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It’s free to try QCAD to see if it does what you want.

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When FreeCAD was taking too much time to load DXF files for use with SendCutSend.com I loaded up LibraCAD and it’s been working well. I don’t know about the 1:1 printing but often I find PDF is a good way to get 1:1. LibreCAD is 100% free and open source and is built on Qt so is also cross platform.

https://librecad.org/

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Yeah, LibreCAD is a fork from qcad that isn’t “open core” and it’s what I personally use. But I had thought that Windows support was better in qcad. Maybe I’m wrong about that; I rarely touch Windows.

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As long as you’ve got a solid part, you can switch to the “Drawing” mode. :slight_smile:

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I thought that I had done this before!
I did, no need for viewer.
Thanks for the suggestions though

  1. Enter the drawing workspace and configure part as a drawing
  2. Set the scale to 1:1 in the drawing view menu.
  3. Export as PDF and open document
  4. Print with these settings in the printer properties screen:
  • Actual size
  • Paper size 8.5 x 14

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Ya I often rely on the fact that PDF really tries to be to the scale originally intended and there’s less printer setup magic required.