# Exporting 2d linework from blender 2.5


Blender 2.5X still does not feature the excellent dxf exporter Migius
wrote for blender 2.49, so I mounted this little workaround to be able
to export linework from a blender model to a 2D CAD application such as
FreeCAD or LibreCAD (or AutoCAD if you really must...).

It is made of two scripts, a blender addon to export and a FreeCAD macro
to import. In blender, install the addon the usual way, then use it from
the export menu to export the selected meshes. What will be exported is
simply all the edges of the selected meshes in a text file, one edge (2
vertices) per line.

Then, place the FreeCAD macro in your macros folder, then run it, select
the exported .txt file, and voila, your objects edges get imported, one
compound object is created per blender object. You can then select
everything and export to dxf if you want.

Here are the two scripts:
<http://yorik.uncreated.net/archive/scripts/blender25/io_export_flat_edges.py>
<http://yorik.uncreated.net/archive/scripts/importFlatEdges.FCMacro>

![](../../images/2011/bl2fc1.jpg)
The meshes to be exported in blender

![](../../images/2011/bl2fc2.jpg)
The imported linework in FreeCAD

![](../../images/2011/bl2fc3.jpg)
The same linework exported in .dxf fomat and opened in LibreCAD.