Free Dxf Files For Laser Cutting Xmas Ornaments

I have a laser cutter/engraver purchased from an RCG member here, and using it to cut MDF/ply/balsa parts. I am stuck with LaserCut as an interface to the machine.

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I have DXF files drawn from TurboCad/etc that are my source files. Import them to LaserCut, resize & tweak a few things, and cut them, and I get a line here, a line there, etc. Not optimized to minimize head travel, and therefore inefficient. It is only a 40W laser so quite slow, so optimizing things could really increase output over time. I realize I can use LaserCut to manually go thru the file and set the output order, and therefore make things more efficient. But that will take many hours with the quantity of different input files. I wonder how people use CAM software and/or tools to optimize the output order of DXF files.

I realize this is not specifically a laser thing, that it's probably in the realm of CAM tools. I'd prefer to stick with DXF files as input and output.

Free and/or low cost tools (shareware/donations/etc) are greatly preferred. Any suggestions are appreciated. I'll document here all the things I've tried and eventually what I decide on and more importantly, why. Many thanks for your suggestions, Glenn.

LaserCut is your CAM software. To use something else you need software that is compatible with the controller card in your laser. So you have a few choices. Use the LaserCut. Or get another controller that is compatible with other CAM software.

Or find CAM software that can output to your controller. I believe LaserCut to have features to select the order of cuts, and the direction of the cut. Notice the squares, and arrows around the letters in this picture from the link. Those indicate the laser start point, and the direction of the cut.

No language options but any DW veteran will know their way around. Draw distance is at its usual level or it was barely improved at best. Graphically, recalling playing DW3, 4, and SW in the past (I never played 5), its basically the PS2 engine but all the people have individual shadows and there's no more shimmering.

This may not be germane, but I recently sent a DXF cut file to a laser cutter and he commented on how little the head seemed to jump around while cutting it. I drew and nested the parts in CorelDraw, and once I was happy witht the layout, I cut and pasted each part into a new file in the order I wanted them cut. Once this was done (not really as laborious as it sounds) I saved the new file as a DXF and sent it off to the cutter. I'm not sure my efforts resulted in the minimal jumping around my cutter observed, or if the same process in TurboCAD would produce the sam results, but it might be worth a try. Software tanaka t21 sakura hd terbaru. I realize I can do this all manually, by either changing the order of the lines in the DXF file, or by using LaserCut to change their output order. I'm not really interested in doing it manually, these are large files with several hundred if not a thousand lines, circles, etc.

What I'm looking for is some CAM-related tool that will input a DXF file, analyze the tool paths (lines), and reorder them into an optimal way to minimize unnecessary head movement. Then have the ability to re-export to DXF again. Then I can pull them into LaserCut and cut them. It doesn't matter to me if this is the primary function of this tool or not. It could be a standalone product that's just an optimizer. Or it could be a full-fledged CAM product that just happens to be able to do all these bits I need. What I've found by doing some more research is there's a python tool called dxf2gcode that will read in a DXF file and output a G-Code file.