I reduced a file that had lots of slots to 90% but still needed them to accommodate 3 mm wood. So, I selected all the slots (They all highlighted so I knew I got them all) in the part, and ungrouped them. Then went to tools and selected the slot tool and chose width. It got most of them but missed several. When I tried to select them one at a time and use the tool it had no effect. What am I doing wrong
Basically, you are not doing anything wrong 
The tool just does not recognize all shapes as tabs/slots. This can be because there are too many nodes in that shape. Run the “shape optimizer” tool before, then it should work better. I have some pictures of the steps listed here: FAQ - Diode Laser Wiki (third question from bottom)
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Thanks for the info.
I ran the optimize shapes tool under the edit menu “optimize selected shapes” and it still missed some slots.
They maybe out of range. So are not included.
well, I thought i had a solution. I individualized, optimized and tried to resize. It took initially, but now nothing works very frustrating
So to be clear, attempting to resize a project to 90% of size. then individualizing entire project parts, then optimizing, then trying to resize slots because of the 90% resize and need the 3mm width. The software seems boggy, yes I am using the latest rev. and it does not capture any of the slots.
If you resize I think then you have to measure slots to enter into old material thickness, then enter new thickness. maybe increase tolerance.
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there is was increase the tolerance and all is well. Thank you so much all.
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