Hidden dots

[AnthonyCoker]

I have a plasmacam and use design edge software. Sometimes i get files that have dots in them. You cant see them when you check every thing looks great until you cut and you get random pierce points in the metal. Upon inspection there are dots that are not visible in the drawing. I am wondering how to find them all and delete them without having to zoom every section of the drawing and then selecting a empty area to find there is something available to delete. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. I am truly not sure what you call the dots. I thought is was nodes.

[Joe Jones]

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[Joe Jones]

I have a plasmacam and use design edge software. Sometimes i get files that have dots in them. You cant see them when you check every thing looks great until you cut and you get random pierce points in the metal. Upon inspection there are dots that are not visible in the drawing. I am wondering how to find them all and delete them without having to zoom every section of the drawing and then selecting a empty area to find there is something available to delete. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. I am truly not sure what you call the dots. I thought is was nodes.

The dots and dashes are called REMNANTS. They are tidbits of trimmed lines and other things that are NOT supposed to be in the drawing. DesignEdge sees EVERYTHING, so if you convert a drawing to cut paths, and there is a .001" long line somewhere where it is not supposed to be, DesignEdge WILL convert that line into a cut path and it WILL pierce the material for that cut path. Even if the path is only 1/1000th of an inch long, you will still pierce a hole through the material the diameter of your kerf width at the start point of that cut path.

Use VIEW > SELECT> to find those annoying errors before you cut.

Joe

[AnthonyCoker]

Thanks Joe I will try that!

[Joe Jones]

Remember the EIGHT STEPS!

1. VIEW > SELECT >

2. List by PATH LENGTH

3. Select the shortest path at the top of the list. (open or closed)

4. CLOSE the View Select Window

5. Press F6 to ZOOM to the line or shape you have selected.

6. Press F2 repeatedly to ZOOM OUT to see what it is, in the design.



7. If it DOESN'T BELONG, press DELETE while it is SELECTED to delete it from the design.

8. Repeat this process until the smallest path in the design BELONGS to the design.

Remember to SAVE your design again after all of the tidbits, and errors, and remnants have been identified and deleted!

Joe


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[Larry83301]

I have a plasmacam and use design edge software. Sometimes i get files that have dots in them. You cant see them when you check every thing looks great until you cut and you get random pierce points in the metal. Upon inspection there are dots that are not visible in the drawing. I am wondering how to find them all and delete them without having to zoom every section of the drawing and then selecting a empty area to find there is something available to delete. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. I am truly not sure what you call the dots. I thought is was nodes.

Some files that I load into Mastercam have those dots. I used to worry about them so I wasted time trying to figure them out. Finally I zoomed in on some of them and found that in every file that had them they turned out to be CENTER POINTS for every arc no matter how small or big every arc had the center marked with a dot. Now I just pretend that they don't exist and go on with whatever I was going to do and when I'm done I save the file and all those dots go away.


Larry