pierces all over the place before cutting

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pierces all over the place before cutting

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Everytime I do this file sheetcam creates lots if start points besides the inside and outside cuts. on both of my cad programs it isn't showing any open contours, and it seems like all the lines are connected, but when I do my cut paths it goes crazy. Anybody know whats going on and can help? here is the file
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Re: pierces all over the place before cutting

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I hope this help

Please restore the size

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Re: pierces all over the place before cutting

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thanks it looks like it will work, can you tell me what I had wrong, and what software you used to fix it. thanks
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There were individual lines are not closed contours. With VCarve Pro 5.5 everything connected.
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I took a look at your DXF. There were 4903 individual lines in the DXF. I used Cam-Bam to join the the lines into 25 Polylines.

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Re: pierces all over the place before cutting

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Anybody know whats going on and can help?
i'd rather teach the man to fish than give him a fish :mrgreen:

i opened your dxf in sheetcam
the first obvious problem is various line segments on 3 layers
by turning on/off various layers in sheetcam you can see this
you'd also have to set up 3 operations to completely cut all lines

i opened the the file in autocad and changed everything to 1 layer
reopened in sheetcam and all is good, there were no open segments or corners
that's what's going on and how to fix it next time you run into this problem
not sure how you could change all segments to one layer quickly in sheetcam
maybe someone can post up a quick sheetcam fix to merge the layers
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Re: pierces all over the place before cutting

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In sheetCam you would use select all from all layers then move to a layer.

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what did i tell you :mrgreen:
to clarify... click on edit contours icon: arrow with C
right click on screen to see the menus available

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