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archis
12-27-2011, 06:22 PM
Has anybody experienced a bug in partworks 3.091 where the machine vectors for profile cutting are swapped?

If I select outside, it cuts inside (and diagrams inside), and if I select inside it cuts and diagrams outside.

Selecting "On" works just fine. It just seems to be this one file, all my other files up to this point have been fine.

garyc
12-27-2011, 06:29 PM
Jim..
Make sure that the vector shape that you are cutting is closed, and that all vector segmants have been joined. You will notice on the toolpath tab that the cut directions are listed as "Outside/Right" or "Inside/Left". Outside and Inside are for closed vectors, Left and Right are for open.

When you assume a closed shape, an open one usually returns unexpected results.

archis
12-27-2011, 08:03 PM
Thanks Gary that was it.

I thought it would yell at me if the vector was open and I tried to generated a toolpath, I guess that's not always the case.

garyc
12-28-2011, 08:57 AM
Jim...
You can do a quick check by {r click} select open vectors. Of course there are other options available.