Bridge and Tabs add more than selected in Auto

[justginbg (Gary Rowlands)]

Hi guys,
I have just started using the bridge tab facility in version 22, and have noticed some things. I researched, watched clips but still have questions. This isn’t urgent. I did what I wanted manually, but for the auto option…

When I have selected parts and select

Automatic
2 tabs per item
Ignore enclosed holes

on some parts I get exactly two, but, on other parts I get 4.

I thought I imported the files from Coreldraw 19 as a .dxf maybe there’s some issue there, so I selected the part, looked at closing the vectors if they were not joined, thinking, maybe the one part was made of two …but It was one part.

As I say this is definitely not a burning issue, excuse the pun, but it happens.

I went on to cut the parts and the result is. PERFECTTT

Thank you for this feature

Gary

[LightBurn (Oz)]

Most likely, your parts aren’t closed loops, but disconnected, independent shapes.

If you select one of those parts with too many tabs, un-group it (Ctrl+U), then grab part of it and drag it - I would bet good money that it splits into pieces.

Undo (Ctrl+Z) then select everything (Ctrl+A), ungroup it all (Ctrl+U), then use Edit > Auto Join Selected Shapes (Alt+J) to connect all the loose bits together.

[justginbg (Gary Rowlands)]

Thanks Oz, I have gone back in and here’s what I have noticed, and how I need at adapt my practices.

The shaped were indeed individual parts but that remained so even after I selected the whole item and used the Auto Join Selected Shapes…Thanks for shortcut.

But, they were not joining because in my select I was selecting everything in the part, including holes.
When I selected the top and bottom, it again did not join them… see images

Some would not upload, file too large alert

So I even tried Join with tolerance…nope

But when I closed in, there was an overlap, so I manually closed the lines and tried bridges…bam…perfect …

So…I will not just select the whole drawing and apply close…as I do in Coreldraw…I will not even select a whole part with holes, I will select the parts needed…and I really like the Show Open…very cool…then I will join them…but man, the bridges/tabs were perfect…I found using the tab percentage level at 12 made things even sweeter

So again thank you

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

@justginbg

But when I closed in, there was an overlap, so I manually closed the lines

This can be required. Glad to see you are making progress and thanks for the friendly comments. We like hearing folks are enjoying LightBurn.