converting to cut pattern on plasmacam

[mad monkey]

Hey guys, I am having a problem. Every now and then when I am working on a new piece, when I put my lead ins in, it goes waaay off the picture. 97% of the time, it puts a small one like it should, other times it goes off on some wild goose chase. Any ideas? It starting to drive me nuts!!!!

[drakus]

do you have check in settings move lead in to for best fit?

It is in settings - Offset / Convert tab

also post a pick. please. Might be something else if not that.

[mad monkey]

ya everything seems ok, I will do 1 lead-in and its fine, then the next one goes nuts

[mad monkey]

think I figured it out. The pieces I was doing were small, and when I scaled them larger, it works ok. We will see if it stays that way!

[ryno fab]

Scaling works well. sometime when you scale back down and cut it will leave a blowout mark in the metal you are trying to keep. If you have a few small odd shape holes in a larger drawing you can pic out a better spot to lead in. manually convert these ones first, picking a wide spot or an end. Then convert the rest by clicking the outer part of the drawing to automatically convert the rest. If that doesn't work try converting the it then trim off the end reconnect and re convert it. I have even had to snip out a small section( where it is trying to lead in) and drawn a new section ( pretty fast with
F9 enabled) and re connected and converted. I try to save the "scale up then down" technique as a last resort.