After this, another window will open which will give you a preview of the DXF to be saved.
An options pane will appear on the left side of the screen, so don't forget to click OK there in order to complete the save process.
Export the 2D model in DXF format, by choosing DXF in the "Save as" window. Desing the 2D model in SolidWorks as a SolidWorks part file (not an assembly). In this short tutorial, I will explain the method that I find to work best, which involved a combination of Solidworks and Inkscape. On the other hand, there are the real CAD tools such as SolidWorks and Fusion 360, but they are often very bad at exporting the model in a Vector format which you can send directly to a laser cutter. However, those are not real CAD tools, because they lack many critical features that engineers are looking for - such as the ability to specify dimensions for more complicated nonstandard geometries. Some of the vector desing tools that come to mind are Inkscape (free and open source) and Adobe Illustrator. I just made the switch from mac to windows (haven't used windows since vista came out) so I may just be overlooking something very simple.When it comes to 2D CAD for laser cutting, there seems to be a real lack of software that is feature-rich and capable of exporting files in a format ready for laser cutters. After uninstalling (making sure i didn't keep the previous settings) and reinstalling, the files under "templates" had the inkscape Icon instead of the internet explorer icon. I read on another post someone had success by going to program files>inkscape>share>templates and right clicking and making the default program to open svgs as inkscape. svg's had the internet explorer icon and apparently were html files. I may or may not have changed a setting though? (when i uninstalled, i selected don't keep previous settings) i had a previous issue where all my attempts at saving. 
I've tried so many variants over the past couple hours, even uninstalling and reinstalling inkscape to no avail. The Fusion sketch will not include unsupported geometry." I get an error message saying "The selected SVG file contains no information or some unsupported information. The problem occurs opening it in fusion 360. I open inkscape, select "import", select the image, it pops up and save as a. I'm trying to take an image and save it as.
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