Comments on: Importing DXF Files Into Inkscape

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:12:53 +0000

Global Mapper costs $350. The method mentioned in my post is free.

By: Nordes

Nordes — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:01:02 +0000

You can also use Global Mapper… it does a lot of amazing thing.

By: pavleb

pavleb — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:41:53 +0000

You can DXF import it do OpenOffice Draw. You might not see it since when it imports it is really tiny . Just stretch it using Ctrl+Shift to keep the aspect ratio. If you can’t see it try Select All.

BTW the newest version of Inkscape supports DXF import and its native format is SVG so you can covert it there too.

By: AS

AS — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:52:07 +0000

Cool…thx so much….

By: Max R.

Max R. — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:18:47 +0000

You, sir, kick ass… and in so doing have saved my bacon. After scouring the internet and finding countless crappy outdated shareware programs, I find the answer sitting under my nose. Thank you a thousand times over.

By: tomrgb

tomrgb — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:11:30 +0000

comming up to dxf from autocad 2002:
you should save it as autocad2000dxf,
then you will be fine…

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:50:02 +0000

I don’t have Autocad but I tried it with SolidEdge 2D and it worked fine. Also with some DXFs I downloaded from various websites.

By: W. Basson

W. Basson — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:25:47 +0000

I have tried it: importing a DXF-file created by Autocad2002, but it didn’t work. It opened in Open Office Draw, alright, but the SVG file created from it wouldn’t open in Inkscape.

Perhaps it depends on the program used to create the DXF?