Converting solids to polylines

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0xdeadbeef
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Converting solids to polylines

Post by 0xdeadbeef » Sat Aug 29, 2015 4:50 pm

I try to create my own SMD solder masks using a cutting plotter (Silhouette Portrait) and need DXF as intermediate format.
My PCB tool (DipTrace) can export to DXF and when I load the DXF into QCad, it looks fine, but when I load the same DXF into the plotter application, it's empty.
I assume it's because the pads are exported as "solids" and I assumed I could quickly convert them to polylines in QCad, but unfortunately, I didn't find a way yet.
Well, I could draw a polyline around each of these solids, but there must be a better way to do this.
Any ideas?

I'm using QCad Pro 3.9.4.0 on Windows 7
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Re: Converting solids to polylines

Post by andrew » Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:01 am

I've created a feature request at:
http://www.qcad.org/bugtracker/index.ph ... sk_id=1258

A quick fix is available to use Modify > Explode to convert solids into polylines.

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Re: Converting solids to polylines

Post by 0xdeadbeef » Mon Aug 31, 2015 6:25 pm

Great, thanks for the quick support!

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