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OpenBuilds CAM adding Tabs

Discussion in 'CAM' started by Timothy Pinto, Mar 6, 2019.

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  1. Timothy Pinto

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    I created a toolpath for a vector outside path. I added tabs to it via the intuitive interface. Now I'm getting greedy. I make wood signs, and only need tabs on 2 sides of the rectangular sign. Is there any way to specifically locate tabs, instead of just having uniform spacing?
     
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    Unfortunately no. But, playing with the distance, you can get very different placing as the algorithm does its thing. Try a few different values
     
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    How do you add tabs to a project?
     
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    Under the toolpath options' Advanced section:

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    That's weird.
    Mine only has Geometry: Merge on the Advanced Settings
     

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    You're creating a Plasma toolpath. Tabs are for CNC
     

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