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How to remove overlapping sketch lines and sketch to dxf producing multiple layers
Peter_Backeris
Member Posts: 2 ✭
I'm creating a design for laser cutting fabrication. I'm usually exporting a surface face to DXF, which works great. For a certain cut, I wanted to use a sketch, as it efficiently produces the dxf to cut multiple faces together that aren't on a shared face, but a shared sketch.
I found that the dxf file had two layers, which caused the laser cutter to make 2 passes. I had to manually delete the overlapping lines in the laser cutter software which is tedious. There may be an efficient method to do this in DXF software, but I'm not savvy with that.
I went to inspect the sketch and found that there are indeed multiple lines overlapping. If i click on a line and delete it, there is still another line there. I'm not sure how this occurred, but possibly using things like the "project" tool.
My question is, is there a way to collapse overlapping lines in a sketch into a single line, or otherwise get around this issue of multiple layers being exported in the DXF when using the sketch as the source and not a solid face?