Copy and move contours to new layer/part

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Copy and move contours to new layer/part

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Hey Les,

I'm not exactly sure where the problem is here, but something is going on with the copy/move contours. Here's what i did...
1) import drawing to part, 2) copy contours to 3 separate new parts, 3) nest parts, 4) move each contour from 3 new parts back to the original part, 5) attempt to create operation for the original part now with 4 sets of contours.

An error came up saying some paths were not generated correctly and there is a problem with the drawing.

End goal here is an attempt to cut 4 parts with one pierce in order to reduce processing time on thick plate. Using the "max chain length" option in the operations window. Problem occurs with or without chain length.
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Re: Copy and move contours to new layer/part

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Sorry, I missed this post. Do you still have the job file?
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Re: Copy and move contours to new layer/part

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I just ran some tests and couldn't replicate the problem. Could you send me the dawing you used.
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Here's the job file and the dxf of the original part.
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Re: Copy and move contours to new layer/part

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This highlighted a curious long standing bug in part of my path code. I'm really surprised this bug hasn't caused other issues. It will be fixed in the next release.
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I'm curious what the bug affected because I have noticed little quirks along the way but nothing that was reproducible or caused a straight up failure to generate a path until this.
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It affected the way the paths were described internally. If it affected anything it would be the post processor.
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