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quick way to change the shape of a contour

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 17:47:09 GMT

Hi there,

I am quite new to Robot. I am thinking if there is a quick way to change the shape of a contour which has been completed before. I mean in the file the contour goes from node 4507 to 4513. I am thinking if I can just break the line between node 4507 and 4513 and let it goes from node 4507- 4565-4567-4568-4566-4513, rather than redrawing the contour, since sometimes the shape of the contour is very complicated and it is hard to redraw the contour.

Please take a look my file

Many mant thanks

Tina

Re: quick way to change the shape of a contour

Rafacascudo — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 18:24:06 GMT

The same tool that divides bars also works on contour edges. So you can divide the edge as you like and then drag the the newly created contour charaterisc points to the nodes you want to define the new contour

Re: quick way to change the shape of a contour

Rafal.Gaweda — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 07:46:50 GMT

In addition - see webinar 6.