Hey y’all,
I got a weird bug, namely, I’m missing an internal piece of a continuous cutline.
The shape is essentially like a closed loop, twisted over itself, so it could cut the thing in one continuous path, rather than two pieces.
Thoughts?
Let me know if you require further information.
Thanks 
I have no idea why it acts this way, but I can tell you how to work around it. Go to Node Editor. At the intersection of the 2 areas hover over the nod that is there, click the D key to delete the node. You will need to do this 3 times until there is no longer a node there, just crossing lines. Then Arrange Menu>Break Apart. It will cut as you desire.
Deleting the nodes made no difference, unfortunately:
Figured I’d break the shape in the corner, and have it start there (as confirmed by the starting point arrow). That, too, it ignored:
If I leave a small gap, it does work???
It’s… weird…
Did you use the break apart command on the entire shape before testing? Just removing the nodes did not do it. I had to break apart as well.
That’s the problem: although it’s not made clear in the doc, a closed vector path must have a distinct “inside”, which means the path cannot cross itself.
Also, that corner has three coincident points, one marking the start / end of the whole path.
AFAICT, the path planner follows very simple rules, so trying to outsmart it generally leads to heartache & confusion.
Fair enough for the closed shape, but what about the one where I broke apart the corner?
Then it would just be a string that just so happened to have the same start/ & end point 
? Does it treat the open loop like a closed loop if those point coincide?
The small gap does make it behave as expected.
@thelmuth, I broke apart the corner with the node edit tool (B), which I figured to be enough, as breaking all the nodes felt a little unnecessary?
Sure does seem to be true, and weird stuff happens if you do anyway:
Although I find that behaviour unintuitive. For filling, it makes a lot of sense, but as a cut/score line it doesn’t? I just want the laser to follow the lines as though I’m “drawing without lifting the pen from the paper” kinda thing. I feel like that’s not an unreasonable usecase?
Leaving a stupid small gap does, once again, work to make it behave like expected:
You have a Kerf in your Layer settings. Remove the Kerf.
Well, I’ll be da…
With the kerf disabled, it does work as expected. That most likely is caused by the inside-outside nature of the kerf.
Thanks !
