Just like the title says this function will not work for me with this file that I exported from slicer for fusion 360. It just adds “copy of” over and over to the part name instead of creating other parts. If there is no way to get this to work does anyone know of a way I can put the small parts inside the hollow part of the big parts.
In Fusion 360 and Inkspace selecting parts by clicking and dragging is hard since they are so close together, but sheetcam lets me select them just by clicking on the line (if the parts werent all stuck together this would work). I know I can use edit contour to move each object to a seperate part, but this would take too long for a lot of parts.
DXF:
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@lajjaljdfj your userid is able to upload files now, please upload an example of the dxf you are working with.
You have drawn a frame around the parts. SheetCam uses the outermost shapes to figure out the outline of a part. In this case that is the frame.
@Les_Newell When I right click on the “frame” layer it wont let me delete it. This is how the DXF comes from Slicer for Fusion 360. Do I just need to find a way to delete this layer?
Switch to ‘Edit contours’ mode, click on the frame to select it then right-click and select ‘Delete’. You should then be able to break up the drawing.
It works!!! I appreciate your help very much!
@Les_Newell Is there a way to apply a cut operation to all the parts, instead of each individual part? I saw another one of your answers from 2022 that mentions a “combine all parts” feature. I cannot find this option anywhere. I also read that you could copy operations to other parts but I would still have to do this like 60 times. Is there some way to avoid this?
If you are breaking up your drawing, set up the operation before breaking. That way the operation will be copied to all of the individual parts. The dev version of SheetCam has a combine parts option if you right-click in the parts list. This has not yet made it to the stable version.
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