I’m not where I can open up your file but I notice in the top picture there’s an error in the toolpath (the yellow warning triangle next to it in the tree view). What’s that say when you click it?
The bottom pic shows the outline wasn’t generated that’s why the simulation didn’t show it cutting.
To be honest I am not sure what I did importing your F3D file but then I deleted you set up. Extruded the part and everything went fine. Simulator ran the whole part and created tap file.
I’m not sure but if you clicked the warning triangle it tells you what it coukdny do and sometimes (not always unfortunately ) says why. Most often it’s drawing constraints or conflicts with lead-in/lead-out settings and the size of the scrap side of a cut.
Your perimeter never should have showed up as 8 separate cuts. You can see in the image I uploaded the whole thing is done as five chains. Four for each hole and one for the perimeter.
If they were discrete & unconnected they can be treated as separate chains for pathing. Depends on how it was drawn. If it was a rectangle with overlapping ellipses subtracted from the rectangle I wouldn’t be surprised if the arcs were also multiple line segments.
If they were discrete & unconnected they can be treated as separate chains wouldn’t then have had 8 lead ins? and still cut when I imported his drawing I don’y know how I fixed it but ended up with the five chains I would expect.
I have used the sketch checker but need to look in to the Fill Gaps that maybe handy as well,
This is the great thing about the forum & the internet in general - someone somewhere knows all the tricks & tips and we just need to ask & look I think it makes us all more capable than we’d probably be otherwise (at least it’s true for me speaking from a hobbyist’s viewpoint).
If you have 2 points how do you close the gap? basically what the app is doing on your behalf. Is it just zooming in like crazy then touching the points? I cant seem to get it right manually.
Yes, effectively. It’s sometimes really hard to find the disconnected points. You have to zoom way in & then moving to the next one you need to zoom out, move and then zoom back in. Pretty tedious. Autodesk should have the feature built-in - it’s pretty common in design apps.
Thanks again for the help… Incase you’re curious they turned out great annnnd just in time for tomorrows bbq.
The first practical thing I made (the 2nd thing I cut out besides the bottle opener demo)
haha thanks. Use what ya got. If you notice that the bar has a wrench welded to the end of it. Couldnt reach a bolt on the transmission housing till I made excalibur over there.