Trying to cut an array of objects in LB1.0.0.2 on my MacBook Pro running Big Sur 11.5.2 and the cut path is all over the place. I have attached an image of the cut path as seen on the preview.
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I have previously watched the video and I still maintain that the cut path is crazy. I have taken a screen capture of the preview panel and I will attach it here as an animated GIF.
I can’t see how this is an optimised cut path, and I have tried every option available with none of them making a sensible path. The nearest I got was to make every row a group and then set the group priority. Even then it would bounce all over rather than cutting one and moving on to the adjacent shape.
I think that the problem may have something to do with how an array is created. The original shapes were created using the array function to get a 9x10 array of shapes. I just created a new sheet and replicated the shapes with a simple cut and paste to make a similar set of shapes and with no changes to the optimisation this is the result.
I have attached the one with the crazy cut path. I didn’t save the other one but it was just created by taking one of the shapes and the copy and pasting it. I manually reversed alternate copies and inverted rows to get the same layout.