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Re: Five Fold Knot---not working HELP!
« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2011, 07:35:24 PM »
heheheheh  fat fingers and not using the spell checker is what that is lol.
  "threw a .020" radius" is what it's supposed to be.
I used Autodesk, by Autocad.
Limited but cheap.

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Re: Five Fold Knot---not working HELP!
« Reply #11 on: January 01, 2011, 07:40:33 PM »
Hey Russ,
Good to see your LC  memory is still good.... ;D
RICH
Re: Five Fold Knot---not working HELP!
« Reply #12 on: January 01, 2011, 07:57:11 PM »
jus a couple of the Cardinal rules are burned in from way before the manuals.
"if an inside radius is not at least the cutter radius (+.001 helps), you're flirting with disaster".
That, and the medication I'm on helps too. (It helps keep the economy going.......for the folks at Anheuser Busch anyway)

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Re: Five Fold Knot---not working HELP!
« Reply #13 on: January 01, 2011, 08:09:29 PM »
For the "pain in the neck ones" you can also select the closed entities, move the cutting start point to somewhere else on its profile ( click again where you want it to stay).
When you post code make sure you turn off profiles / chains not wanted.

What is causing the pain is that LC is automaticaly selecting the start point, but, when trying to create an offset at those points it senses that you will not stay on profile ...i guess ? and thus either dosen't do the pathing / rounds / or changes the path " to help the user avoid a machining error".

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Re: Five Fold Knot---not working HELP!
« Reply #14 on: January 01, 2011, 08:18:14 PM »
BTW,
Fillet Corners commmand in the Tools tab is not functional to my knowledge  but would have been a quick fix for some of this.
You can hack away at the command.......i just don't remember how much effort i put into it .....was two years ago!
Better to just do as Russ said and CAD it.
 
RICH