SolidWorks DXF File Size — Why Your Drawing Export Is 100x Larger Than the Flat Pattern
A r/SolidWorks thread from last week: user exports a sheet metal part to DXF, sends it to the laser shop, gets a call saying the file is corrupt. The file is 20MB for a bracket with three bends. The shop’s nesting software chokes loading it. The user is exporting from the drawing, not from the part. This is the most common DXF export mistake in SolidWorks, and it is invisible until something downstream breaks. ...