Easy (relatively) way to reverse engineer DXF to show angles/dimensions?

[aarggh]

Hi all,

I have a DXF of a simple bell shape that I need to get folded by a suitable company in the next week or so when everyone's back at work.

In anticipation of being asked for a CAD of it, is there any easy way to import this DXF into any program (or web page tool?) to auto generate angles, and dimensions? I've been playing with FreeCAD and getting nowhere fast, honestly I feel like my heads about to explode using it. The simple programs I use allow me to easily create the diagrams, but without any real CAD blueprint output.

For those that are curious, it's a 245mm wide x 230mm high letterbox enclosure to fit between front and rear end plates. The top section is to enclose a 90mm PVC pipe.

I'd be grateful if anyone could recommend a fairly least painful method.

cheers, Ian

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[Mike 1948]

You could try using Draftsight, it is free and you can dimension your file, but, all of your arcs are a series of small straight lines. so you will have issues trying to get a arc dimension. If you folding company is worth its salt it should be able to work directly with the DXF file.

Mike