Looping outside corners

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Looping outside corners

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Is there a way to loop outside corners in sheetcam? I can't figure it out for the life of me?
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Not sure if this is what you are looking for
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as shown in the picture in the post below you need to tick the radio / selection button that says "arcs"
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What does it actually mean: Loop Sharp corners. Does it mean put a radius on them.
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I think it is a outside loop so the corner is a sharp angle, the loop is outside the part cut material.
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TJS wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:28 pm What does it actually mean: Loop Sharp corners. Does it mean put a radius on them.
Are you looking to put radiuses on sharp corners? If so you can "fillet" the corners of the drawing in CAD. If that's the case, post up which CAD program you are using and maybe one of us can help you out.
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TJS wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:28 pm What does it actually mean: Loop Sharp corners. Does it mean put a radius on them.
No it means make them sharp corners by looping the torch path as shown in the image below.
2019-10-01 20_07_33-SheetCam TNG Development - TestDrawing.png
2019-10-01 20_07_33-SheetCam TNG Development - TestDrawing.png (18.59 KiB) Viewed 562 times
If you want to create a radius on all of the corners (or some) what you can do is adjust your G64 tolerances if using Linuxcnc or UCCNC.... won't work for Mach3 ...... think it works for Mach4

http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.6/html/gcode ... ml#sec:G64
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robertspark wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 3:10 pm
TJS wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:28 pm What does it actually mean: Loop Sharp corners. Does it mean put a radius on them.
No it means make them sharp corners by looping the torch path as shown in the image below.

2019-10-01 20_07_33-SheetCam TNG Development - TestDrawing.png

If you want to create a radius on all of the corners (or some) what you can do is adjust your G64 tolerances if using Linuxcnc or UCCNC.... won't work for Mach3 ...... think it works for Mach4

http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.6/html/gcode ... ml#sec:G64
This is what I was looking for. Thanks!
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Re: Looping outside corners

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Thanks for the image and explaination robertspark. This helps. Ironken, I do know how to radius the corners in Inkscape, thanks for that help.
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