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Chains and entities question
« on: September 01, 2009, 08:22:57 PM »
Is it possible to take 4 entities out of a chain and create a new chain of those 4 entities. In the uploaded photo there is a thin strip that needs to be broken away from the outer chain.

Can this be done?

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Re: Chains and entities question
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2009, 09:00:04 PM »
If I recall correctly, you can't do much at the entity level. You can delete them.
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Re: Chains and entities question
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2009, 09:49:49 PM »
I think IF you start BEFORE you optimise the file it might can be done. If you upload the dxf file I will give it a whirl and let you know.
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Re: Chains and entities question
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2009, 11:05:25 PM »
Hi, Steve

Post your dxf as "TP" stated, You can also try changing the Setup, "Load Options" as shone in pic below,Then re-load the dxf and re-pocket it.

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Re: Chains and entities question
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2009, 06:05:15 PM »
I have tried alot of things described above. No matter what i click that "rib" seems to always be part of the larger oval. All i want to do is pocket inside the big oval .032 deep and everything in there will be islands. Then i need to cut the outer oval to complete the part.

Here is the file
« Last Edit: September 02, 2009, 06:07:55 PM by stevehuck »

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Re: Chains and entities question
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2009, 06:28:02 PM »
When I bring the drawing into Lcam those items ARE separate chains????  Not sure what you are doing to combine them. I used a line connect tolerance of .001"

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« Last Edit: September 02, 2009, 06:34:36 PM by vmax549 »
Re: Chains and entities question
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2009, 09:35:23 PM »
Not sure what you are doing to combine them. I used a line connect tolerance of .001"

(;-) TP

That was it!!  I set mine to .001 also and BOOM! it worked!

Thank you!! Thank you!!  Thank you!!  Thank you!!

Steve
Re: Chains and entities question
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2009, 10:12:42 PM »
Now see if you can pocket the inside of the large oval and leave all those ribs. I think that large cluster in the center is too complicated. LC wants to machine the entire center removing all the ribs.

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Re: Chains and entities question
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2009, 10:52:52 PM »
I am only guessing, but assume you want the ribs machined into the surface of the plate and then in the square part on the air cleaner you will put some text.
Adjust the spacing of the ribs to suite the tool you will use and the look you want to machine into the plate. For example; The current path spacing is about .030".
Create a pocket such that the pathing would be spaced bigger and actualy use a smaller tool adjusting the depth to suite what affect you want. You will need to lay it out some before hand.

Once you have the pathing you can assign cut parameters as you want.

But as i so state in the manual, you figure out what you want to machine before hand and don't try to use LC as a CAD program.  ;)
RICH

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Re: Chains and entities question
« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2009, 12:03:58 PM »
Steve this part is TINY is it to scale??? IF so you will have to work with extremly small bits to make it work.

UNLESS that is the idea (;-) TP