Having difficutly being able to establish a cut path.

[thebytedoc]

I have looked for the answer and tried to connect all the dots, so to speak, to no avail. I am attempting to have my CW cut this half moon piece. I have grouped it so that I can have it simply cut the halfmoon and have it mark the notches for manual cutting.

This was originally an imported DXF File. I deleted a great deal of what came in (first attempt at this). I used the Connected line tool to try to get it to be closed up so I can set a cut path, then of course I would insert tabs.

Any help/education on this process would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Doc

[fwharris]

Do a "select all" and then from the "view" tab select "toggle non-endpoints" . Any end points that are not connected will be highlighted "red". Zoom in and move the red dots until you get a star to indicated they are connected..

[thebytedoc]

Thanks Floyd. I read the toggle end points in another post but was not getting the red dot -> X thing. Thanks!!

[fwharris]

Doc,

You very welcome. I did play with your mpc a bit just to see and did have some issues with getting them connected. Thinking it might be with how the vectors were brought in from the dxf. You might need to add some paths to get them to connect...

Also if the number get in the way of the view you can toggle the labels off..

MORE:.. looking at it now and I am having to "break figure" in some areas and deleting lines to make connections.. almost there..

[thebytedoc]

Gadzooks Floyd,
You are too generous with your time and I can not tell ya how much it is appreciated. This was simply meant to be an exercise in using DXF Import and doing a cut pattern, neither have I done before. So your time and insight are hugely appreciated! Of course it is a simple figure and could be drawn within designer very simply, but then that would have completely missed the point

Best Regards,
Doc

[TerryT]

Just out of curiosity, were any of the none connected areas mirrored?

[fwharris]

Gadzooks Floyd,
You are too generous with your time and I can not tell ya how much it is appreciated. This was simply meant to be an exercise in using DXF Import and doing a cut pattern, neither have I done before. So your time and insight are hugely appreciated! Of course it is a simple figure and could be drawn within designer very simply, but then that would have completely missed the point

Best Regards,
Doc

No problem Doc! I use a lot of these as a learning tool for myself. I had to go back and look at it some more out of curiosity just to see why the connections would not complete the path. I did see some duplication on lines that had me baffled for a bit...

[thebytedoc]

No, I did remember reading about that in a post also. But, no, just a simple DXF import from Google Sketchup. For such a simple object it sure does go to town with the polylines! I think Google Sketchup Vectors evertyting relative to the origin point. It had 30+ polylines coming from the origin point. Very strange behavior. Again, a learning experience for me

[thebytedoc]

No problem Doc! I use a lot of these as a learning tool for myself. I had to go back and look at it some more out of curiosity just to see why the connections would not complete the path. I did see some duplication on lines that had me baffled for a bit...

Floyd, some of that duplication was so I could determine if I wanted CW to do the Notches or just simple cut the arc and I would manually cut the notches. Even still, I wanted CW to scribe the cut lines for the notches even if it did not actually cut them out. That is why I groupled it the way I did, had a method to my madness .

An additional point of interest, the DXF came in 10x larger than the original Google Sketchup drawing. I had to change the scale in the import to .1. Any notions on why that happened? Of course I prefer to work in metric, although I am not sure that has a specific bearing on it.

[thebytedoc]

No problem Doc! I use a lot of these as a learning tool for myself. I had to go back and look at it some more out of curiosity just to see why the connections would not complete the path. I did see some duplication on lines that had me baffled for a bit...

Floyd,
Does this mean you were able to establish a cut path with this shape? I have tried, even from scratch and am not having luck thus far. Seems silly, it is really a very simple pattern, I really should be able to draw a couple arcs, connect them them and have a cut path?! I am obviously missing something somewhere.
As always, appreciate any guidance provided!

Regards,
Doc