is there a way to sort/select by area of the poly/cut out area for a cut… i’d like to be able to tell the laser to cut the smallest regions first, moving outwards in size. i can do it manually via layer but that takes some time.
so like on an 8 i want it to do the inner o’s before cutting the outer area first. as if i’m doing delicate cuts sometimes it’ll cut the larger area away first then it goes back and cuts out small inner details
I guess you review the cut planner Optimization Settings available in Laser window.
thanks for the link. yeah that one explains manual priority which is where you set the cut order by hand, which takes a long time on a complex part and its easy to miss something. I’m looking for something that can say calculate the area of the cut and automatically sort it by size.
i have some delicate work that has some tiny cut outs, the surrounding area gets cut away first so the air assist can move the to be cut area around as its cutting which won;t happen if it cuts the small areas first, i can set the order manually it just takes a long time and i might miss some and potentially ruin the piece.
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I wasn’t actually referring to that bit.
But “Cut inner shapes” first should force cutting internal shapes before the surrounding shape. “Cut in direction order” and “Reduce travel moves” could somewhat simulate some of the other behaviors you were asking about.
There’s nothing that strictly does smallest to largest shape, however, that I’m aware of.
You could potentially experiment with grouping like shapes and using the order by group along with the other optimization settings to get you a reasonable optimization for your needs.
Yeah they don’t do that either since depending the complexity of the shape and where the smaller cuts are it won’t choose the smaller ones first , needs to be a sort by area size so that I can group by smaller areas
For instance on a concave polygon that’s got another one that’s smaller in its convex hull there’s not necessarily an inner shape these ops tend to work better on convex simple shapes it does a good job otherwise but this one is often an issue for me on detailed work before I move it from wood to metal cutting which though its software can do this , the metal is much less likely to deform during cutting
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