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Isn't it possible to increase the safe height in your case? Or is it at maximum already? Unfortunately that will not solve the problem. This is a production laser machine, the movements are optimized for speed of processing. The head retracts as the XY rapids instead of the head retracting then the...

Yes I can draw a box the size of the stock. So then I would need to use a pocket operation? How would I set the leading to feed in tangent to the corner instead of plunging into the stock or ramping into the stock?

How is the best way to mill a outside contour part from a rectangular block? I started with contour operation, but it does not seem to take into account the stock material size, it just runs a path around the contour. Stock size is 9"Lx5"Wx2"T. Finished size is the dxf contour. Contou...

I'm just special i guess lol 8) I know i ask for a lot of special off the wall stuff, but it is all stuff that will streamline the process and improve efficiency. In my mind at least lol. :lol: I totally understand sheetcam is intended as a beginner level easy to use cam software and most of what i ...

I think it would be an amazing addition to sheetcam. After I spent the time to manually place all those points this morning, all 6 sheets cut perfectly without a single crash and every little square fell out when we picked the sheet up. Could you perhaps limit the number of times the cutpath is eval...

Hey Les, just wondering of you have a easy way (other than manually moving) to place start points on the opposite side of the contour? StartpointLocation.PNG As you can see in the screenshot, sheetcam is placing the start points on the leading side of the contour in the direction of rapids. The prob...

At the same time it may solve this topics authors request. I do believe that would solve the original question to this topic actually. I'll try it and see when its released. Thanks! I had another thought on this in the middle of the night... what if the path rule would check the angle between these...

As you are likley to have to manually move the start point on open contours there isn't much point in trying to optimise the cut distance by moving them for you. What i am getting at here is, i have never had to offset an open contour and cannot think of a reasonable situation where you regularly w...

Oh ok, i see now. But i still dont quite understand. If sheetcam doesnt know which offset you intend for the open contour, then how does it know which end to put the start point on, so why would it matter if it automatically places them at the shortest path when shortest path option is selected? You...

I see a lot of potential for that to mess up, depending on your drawing geometry. Would action points not be a better solution. Dmittedly you would have to manually place the action points. Another workaround would be to modify the post to spot these short line segments. I had another thought on th...

I dont quite understand there Les... sheetcam does move start points... Sheetcam actually initially places the start point anyways and any time i reorder parts or manually locate a start point, sheetcam does indeed move the other start points. So i do not follow what you mean at all.

Hey Les, I have noticed a few things about the path optimizations. It seems to me when the shortest path option is selected, it does not seem to actually travel in the shortest path. At least for open contours. In the attached file "MillEngraving.zip", the first "l" in "hell...

Sorry, i probably should have put that in there too. I also added this to OnInit(): ind = 1 toolTable = {"none"} That is good to know, thank you for the tips! I just already knew how to work with tables, im pretty foggy on string manipulation. And i already had a post processor from the wa...

There is a list of tools that they regularly use and i was just going to tie a typical leadin value and path to each tool instead of having to change it each time. Specifically the engraving tool. Its no big deal, but I would use it.

Hey Les,

Is the leadin and leadout tied to the toolset only applicable to the jet cutting tools? I am seeing where it is useful to have that tied to the milling and routing tools also, but i dont see an option for that. Maybe i'm just missing it.