I tried to reproduce a spirograph in Solidworks 2018, then with Solidworks Motion, I display the result of the trajectory of a point.
I get a curve, and then by right-clicking on the Results graph, I have: create a curve in a sketch and create another curve.
However, as the spline intersects, I can't get it in a sketch but I can export it in csv to plot it in EXCEL. However, I can't export it in DXF from EXCEL while I would like to get this curve in DXF, svg to then use it on a laser cut.
Thank you in advance if you have a solution, even if it is not very academic.
After several tries, I have a pseudo solution which consists of capturing the image on the screen, then vectorizing it and finally saving it in dxf. However, this does not suit me because the thickness of the line is too wide. So I have two outlines instead of one, if the native file is a dxf.
After several tries, I have a pseudo solution which consists of capturing the image on the screen, then vectorizing it and finally saving it in dxf. However, this does not suit me because the thickness of the line is too wide. So I have two outlines instead of one, if the native file is a dxf.
An image was not a suggestion of a solution: but rather can you take a screenshot I should have said ;-)
I guess the image is in 2D. If it's in 2D and if the lines are too thick, there's a vectorization software that one of our nice colleagues talked about a few days ago https://www.lynkoa.com/forum/conception-3d/conversion-jpgdxf.
That said, I don't see what a DXF file can do with a single line, even if it is complicated, if not to be used by autocad, REVIT, etc.... (can you tell us what the DXF file is for (it's pure curiosity ;-) )