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The Workflows pages go from what you have to what you need in one piece of code. Each page starts with the complete workflow in one cell, ready to copy and run, and then goes through it step by step, with the plots along the way and links to the pages that explain each call. Find the row with what you have and what you need:

You have	You need	Workflow
A DXF drawing of a part	A finite-element mesh with named boundaries	From DXF drawing to mesh
A drawing whose curves are many short lines, with small gaps	A clean outline of lines and arcs, as DXF	Cleaning up imported drawings
A constraint sketch	A dimensioned drawing on a sheet, as PDF or DXF	From sketch to dimensioned drawing
A flat part as a planar STEP file	Its thinnest web and smallest opening checked, and a cutting path with the kerf, as DXF	Preparing parts for laser cutting
A 2D profile	A 3D part with holes, as STEP	From 2D profile to 3D part and STEP
A sketch in a .CATPart file	A parametric model to change in Python, and a 3D part as STEP	From .CATPart file to parametric model
A circuit board from KiCad, Altium, Eagle or another tool	A 3D model as STEP, or a mesh of one net’s copper	From PCB board to 3D model or mesh
Faces of different materials, without names	A mesh with materials, boundary names, periodic sides and local sizes	Simulation-ready geometry

Most workflows take more than the file in their example: a DXF or SVG drawing, a planar STEP or BREP file, a sketch from a .CATPart file or a Shapely polygon, and each page lists its readers in a table near its end. Pages with a mesh or a 3D part need the OpenCASCADE bindings and netgen, pip install "planex2d[occ]", and the mesh pages also use NGSolve (see Installation).