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Offline Dragonfly

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If Engrave had tabs ...
« on: September 09, 2019, 16:55:48 pm »
... I would have never done a bunch of acrobatic tricks, all in CamBam, to make tabs on a complex sloped Poly, tilted relative to X/Y plane. :)
But it worked as expected at the end.
This, or if the Profile could follow a Poly on Z axis ...
Thanks to the NumMove plugin.
And to Snappy too which allowed to snap to Poly ends in 3 dimensional space. Never tried it until now.
« Last Edit: September 09, 2019, 16:57:55 pm by Dragonfly »
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Offline EddyCurrent

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Re: If Engrave had tabs ...
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2019, 17:18:40 pm »
Most times I have Snappy disabled because it slows thing down too much, unfortunately I can't see how to improve on it and my 'spare' time is limited at the moment.
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Re: If Engrave had tabs ...
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2019, 09:29:14 am »
My previous sentence is a bit unclear. I am using Snappy all the time but not all snap points active to reduce the load. This was the first time I discovered it snaps to points in 3D space. :)
I first made a Profile with tabs and DOC = 2 mm. Exported to .nc and then imported it back and converted to geometry. The resulting poly appeared to be not closed as some vertical (the tool lifting part) lines were missing. I drew the missing lines using snapping and joined the parts to a single closed poly. After that rotated it and aligned to the original path.
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