Inkscape has an auto simplify function, but the way you control how much simplification is very hard to find!
The simplification level depends on how big each curve is relative to the whole selection. So to simplify things more, you need to give Inkscape a bigger selection.
Here’s the original file with 3160 nodes:
If you just hit Path → Simplify, it’ll come down to about 1000 nodes, which still doesn’t fully load.
So hit undo, and using the pen tool draw a simple triangle far away from the main drawing:
Now select everything (including the triangle), and hit Path → Simplify. This gives about 500 nodes:
Delete the triangle, try re-saving the dxf.
Still doesn’t quite load, undo until you get the original shape back, move the fake triangle further away, now we get about 300 nodes, and it should load in the ArcDroid
cat300.dxf (104.0 KB)
Alternatively you can split the drawing into multiple files, ex: save some smaller details in one file, then the outline in the second file, and run the two one after the other.
