Scenario: I have a jigsaw, which has an engrave layer and a cut layer. When I cut the job, one piece had a bad cut and one of the little jigsaw tabs came off, so I had to redo that one piece.
I know about ‘cut selected graphics’ but the engrave layer is one big pattern that is not so easy to split up. I ended up having to redraw curves which took a while but got the job done.
However it would have been a lot quicker to define a circle around the single piece and say ‘only cut this bit’ - is this possible?
One of the new features in the preview mode is “start from here.” I don’t know that it was engineered for this purpose, but I’ve used it for exactly the problem you’ve noted. Turn off the engraving layer, then set on the “selected graphics” option. Advance the preview cursor to just prior to the desired section. When you select “start from here” and select the top option, the laser will immediately begin.
Having your free hand on the stop button will let you cease fire when past the uncut section. Escape and start will begin again the same segment, a convenient feature to the feature.
Be advised that this will replace the full burn in the memory, so you can’t hit start to do the entire job over.
Thanks; I was not aware this existed. Not sure it would exactly work in my scenario, purely because of the way the cut lines are built, but sounds like something definitely worth knowing!
Maybe you can use the “cut shape” function for your specific needs, give it a try. There is also a video on youtube which explains the function very precisely.
You added masking! happydance (that’ll teach me not to read the change log)
Thank you; that is awesome, and would certainly fix what I was trying to do, and why on Earth did I forget about Boolean intersections?
Thanks Oz!
That really won’t be necessary. I can think of a few people I might resort to that with, but so far I haven’t seen much to indicate you’re among them. Sometimes just reading that a feature exists doesn’t impress upon you all the ways it might be used.
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