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Thanks a million Les.

I got as far as the "Break up manually nested drawing" but was using the wrong "Keep parts together" (the one in the operation).

Keith.

I've just turned a job away after spending hours in frustration trying to do the cam work. This is for a plasma cutting job. In Coreldraw I create a few different parts, each with bolt holes in. Then I create copies of those different parts and nest them all nicely (in Coreldraw). I export this file...

At least you said something about it. I would much rather people ask when they want a new feature rather than suffer in silence. Feedback is extremely helpful to me. As a programmer it is all to easy to fall into the trap of adding features that I think are a good idea rather than features people a...

Well what do you know, under my nose all the time. Thanks Les.

I mentioned the idea on Plasmaspider and there's a few other guys didn't know about it, so I'm not feeling like such an idiot LOL.

Keith.

Hi Les, I can't beleive I haven't suggested this earlier. Lots of times I've re-arranged the pierce point positions and order. Positions is easy because you can just click at the position you want. However, the order of start points is not as easy. I have to right click on the start point, select pr...

Thanks very much Les, that explains it. The PC I'm using is light years away from those specs.

I'll swap it out for a much more powerful one.

Keith.

Hi Les, do you have a rough guide for what minimum specs a computer needs to run Scanything. I've just put an old PC in service on my plasma table. It runs Mach OK but when I started Scanything, the CPU skyrocketed to 95% and stayed there, and the display frames and camera frames were right down aro...

Thanks Les,

I've noticed a few other guys "abandoning ship" with Mach3/4. I wonder if there's going to be a bit of a growing migration to Linuxcnc as a result.

Keith

Hi Les, I've recently bought your Scanything. Due to Mach3 future not looking so good (sales will end), and Mach4 seeming to be rather buggy and only half developed, I'm looking at moving over to Linuxcnc. I don't suppose you have any plans for creating a Scanything that will work with Linuxcnc ?? T...

I have an inch based NC drill file for a PCB. With a standard import into Sheetcam the scale box is greyed out but showing 25.4 The file imported correctly. Problem is the PCB I have produced is a tiny bit undersized so I want to scale the import of the drill file to match. Tried a custom scale numb...

Update: Tried the same thing but replaced the drill operation (hole centre marking) with a normal plasma operation. So had two layers with two plasma operations. This time the whole part would complete before moving onto the next part. So at this point in time it seems in nested cuts, a cut cannot b...