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2d engrave feature selection problem.

ElTejano
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2d engrave feature selection problem.

ElTejano
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I am attempting to do use the 2d engraving feature on some brass but I am having problems selecting the edges. On some, it selects the loop no problem, but on others, it selects a different loop, like up and down and around. Is there any way to force this to chose the edges I need? It is with the most random features it chooses to let me pick or not. With text it is no prob normally. I did a few other designs that it did perfectly. Here is one design I was attempting to do today. On two of these, it let me select the loop no prob, the other two re some of the rest that didnt allow it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.19074909_10211701769637133_1491290720_o.jpg19095940_10211701768357101_1246178811_o.jpg19105124_10211701769837138_951651168_o.jpg19105143_10211701768037093_705794542_o.jpg

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daniel_lyall
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quite often just trying to select from a different spot work, when it's like that I just run the cursor around the contour to it finds the spot it can pick the top or bottom contour


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Steinwerks
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I actually helped someone out with a design much like this not very long ago and made a screencast:

 

 

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ovisopa
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In those cases I think it also helps to keep ALT pressed while you select the contour, and select each segment one by one, on the contour that wasn't correctly selected automatically.

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daniel_lyall
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@ovisopa you don't need to use Alt anymore they fixed that.


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ovisopa
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So you only need to move along to that contour and it will show you automatically all the other different contours ?  I remember just a few weeks ago I had issues selecting and the only way I knew, was using ALT key, it did the job.

 

Now I reopened that model, and it had 7 chains before, I deleted all of them and selected again, it selected what I wanted, 2 chains only 🙂 

 

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Steinwerks
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@ovisopa

 

You're much better off editing the chain as I demonstrated in the screencast above. Otherwise you wind up with multiple chain segments and they don't always play nicely together.

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ElTejano
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Thank you so much for posting this. I dont understand why the program does not just chooses some edges correctly and not others. I will try this today. 

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ElTejano
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Just gave this a shot and it works excellent. Thank you very much for your help.

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