donek drag knife corner loops?

[BMKbsg]

Hello,

Simple question here. When cutting squares with the Donek drag knife tool, I add loops in Illustrator on the corners so they can be cut in a single continuous line, as in the image I have attached. My boss is under the impression that Sheetcam has the capability to detect square corners and insert these loops automatically...is this true?

-Brian

[Les Newell]

SheetCam can create loops but only for plasma/laser/waterjet cutting at the moment. To be honest, I never considered using loops for knife though it does make a lot of sense. I'll have a look at adding loops to knife.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[Ray Phelps]

Les, different topic, couldn't log in to start new one . Sorry if I high jacked a post. Buying new PC with windows 8 will SC work with windows 8 ? Or any special recommendations ?
Thanks Ray

To: problems@forum.sheetcam.com
Subject: Re: donek drag knife corner loops?
From: forumadmin@forum.sheetcam.com
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 11:22:38 -0500

SheetCam can create loops but only for plasma/laser/waterjet cutting at the moment. To be honest, I never considered using loops for knife though it does make a lot of sense. I'll have a look at adding loops to knife.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[Les Newell]

SheetCam should run fine on Win8.

[Les Newell]

The next development version will have an extra option for the corner loop size.

[BMKbsg]

awesome! Thanks Les

[donek]

Loops like this are discussed in the manual. The current plugin uses what I refer to as corner actions. If you watch the tutorial you'll see a detailed explanations of what is happening.
http://youtu.be/63u9idcyVhA

[grasshoper]

Yeah I see it is very detailed, the explanation is very clear thanks for sharing to us.


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