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#Sheetcam shapes plugin how to#
The problems that are more difficult to solve are: how to detect that a leadin/out overlap another shape (or its shape) ? Also, to give faster access to the start point, each mop can have it's start point set to the first point of the polyline by the plugin, so the small red circle that show the start point is immediately usable by mouse, without to have to set it by right clicking a menu for each mop. Then a plugin (to do) can automatically generate as many copy of the source mop than shapes in it's ID property, so we get a mop per shape. apply a profile mop to all the shape as usual and set the suitable properties
#Sheetcam shapes plugin manual#
I think that a plugin could help a little, but manual adjustments will still be necessary. Why is this important? When a plasma/laser cutter starts cutting, it blows a larger hole than the subsequent cutting kerf, so it's critical to allow the cutter a spot to start that's not on an edge so it's not visible in the part to keep. The feature request is to add perpendicular leads, these can fit into tighter spots (small circles). The second bug (?) is that you can't insert a start point for each vector, you instead have to break it into individual MOPs which is a pain in the butt. The first bug is that CamBam shouldn't allow a leadin to cross through the profile being cut (IE: if the leadin crosses the profile line once it's a problem as it's cutting outside of the dropped area) - it should throw an error or warning about the situation or better just not make a leadin on that shape. If I add a negative radius we get "Leadin2". "Leadin1" attached is the default behavior for a 0.25" leadin on that inside profile.
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It will start at the beginning of the vector and following the direction of the vector, you can move that start location manually by right clicking on the profile and "set start point" There are a few tricks: if you put a negative lead-in length you can flip the "side" that it cuts from regardless of whether you picked inside or outside profile. Easiest reference is at the bottom of the lead-ins reference page.