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On your first request, I cannot help but on the second, have you simply considered using "From Solid" as you Stock selection. It does not add any material on sides or top/bottom.
John Hackney, Retired
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If you are addressing me, I do not think there is a way to get it to default to "From Solid", I was just telling you a method to avoid the added offsets.
By the way, do not use "Quick Reply" as this address your Forum post to yourself. Use the Reply icon on the post you are responding to instead.
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@mark7F4W3 wrote:
Similarly, can I have setup default to "0mm" on stock offsets top and sides?
The "preferences" menu seems to be woefully limited on things that I can change.
You can set your default offsets by clicking the 3 vertical points. Also you used to be able to set the stock mode the same way but they broke that a couple of years ago and don't seem interested in fixing it!
Mark Hughes
Owner, Hughes Tooling
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@HughesTooling if you right click on the Setup, you can do this:
Would that not work?
Seth Madore
Customer Advocacy Manager - Manufacturing
@seth.madore It doesn't save the stock mode, it always defaults to From Preceding setup. Don't know if I just have an odd work flow but this is wrong 99.9% of the time. I pretty much always want relative size box.
Mark Hughes
Owner, Hughes Tooling
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From Preceding Stock. Crap, forgot about that...
This is being investigated in CAM-35070
Seth Madore
Customer Advocacy Manager - Manufacturing
@seth.madore On the Rhino forum they have a tag, Paper Cuts for bugs like this. Not a show stopper but something you run into everyday (several times) and given a bit more priority. Bit like the offset arrows that used to offset by the radius of the cutter, now just a guess.
Mark Hughes
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@HughesTooling wrote:
....Bit like the offset arrows that used to offset by the radius of the cutter, now just a guess.
You'll be glad to know that we've done some really nice work in this area and a future release is going to show much better arrow sizing and location. I'll hop onto a Dev build later today and get you a screenshot of the improvement. Could you share that file with me so I can show you what the exact results are going to be?
Seth Madore
Customer Advocacy Manager - Manufacturing
@seth.madore File's attached. The image above is for the engraving op but there's the same problem with the small cutters in the other ops.
The engraving op uses offset curves because there's not stock allowance in the engraving op. Is there a request for stock to leave in the engraving op? Would be useful for roughing as well as spark allowance like this example (negative stock to leave).
Thanks Mark
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For Engrave, the decision was made to stack the direction arrow right on the selected chain. In general, toggling the arrow on Engrave toolpaths has no effect (an exception would be using Engrave in a large pocket, such as Inlay machining). I differed slightly on this, rather preferring a small offset.
Result:
For 2D Contour, the improvement was very nice, and the arrows are much closer to the selected entity (I think they spaced off 1xd of tool):
Seth Madore
Customer Advocacy Manager - Manufacturing
