.DXF FILE - T-SLOT CUTTER

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Brenda Hallman
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.DXF FILE - T-SLOT CUTTER

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I am trying to make a mirror frame with an inset mirror and a slot to insert the glass retainer. Not sure if the material (melamine) will be stable enough to accomplish this. However, I think it is worth a try. The slot cutter I have has a nut on the bottom so I want to have pass #1 to allow for the height of the nut. Then #2 pass would be the slot cutter pass. This pass I want up height (slightly) from pass #1.

It seems that .DXF are written in height order the therefore it would do Pass #2 then pass #1. Is there a way to override this? or another way to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
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Re: .DXF FILE - T-SLOT CUTTER

Post by Clint Buechlein »

I'm assuming you mean loading the DXF into Control Nesting? Just curious as the Customer Tools section of the forum is for tools being swept in Part Editor of eCabinets.

If I am assuming correctly, I'll move the thread.

Also if I am assuming correctly, to get Control Nesting to do what you want, you need to number your operations. For example, the two layers below:

centerline1 z0p375 d0p25
centerline2 z0p25 d0p125

Centerline1 would be completed first, centerline2 would be completed second.

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