tab use for non movement of small parts

[Neville Bastian]

With Tabs am I right in saying these are full depth of material that is left. With onion skin you can have a option to leave this on small parts and trim this manually. Is there a option where you can cut most of the onion skin out but leave part of the onion skin as a tab?. This would be handy as a small onion skin tab would be all that that is required to stop parts moving then a trimmer could be used get rid of it easily. If you were doing doors with a edge profile they could be trimmed without affecting the edge profile.
At the moment cutting a full depth requires cutting on the saw with poor results.
If anyone else thinks this is a good idea please chip in.
If this option is already there well I'll be happy to be put right.

Regards

Neville

[Ryan Hochgesang]

Neville,

You are correct on how Tabbing vs. Skin left is currently used by Control Nesting. As always, we will certainly keep your suggestion for reveiw as we continue to update the Control Nesting software. Thanks for your input.

[Neville Bastian]

Thanks Ryan for taking my idea into consideration.

I think you would be doing your bit for carbon emissions if you could work out how little onion skin you need to leave as a tab. Some small parts need a vacuum pump the size of a jet engine to hold them down when you have the onion skin removed. Also consider where those tabs need to be and how large. When I look at parts when they move its most likely when the router bit changes direction it applies a different lateral force. I wonder if on tiny parts if it cut all the corners first, then the shortest ends second then the longest part last if there was a less likelihood of movement?

The other thought what if the removal of the last part of the onion skin was done by the smallest diameter router bit you had. That could be about 3mm and the resistance to that would be negligible.Cutting the onion skin would also apply no stress on the bit. The only down side would be tool change time but what you call a tiny piece is user determined anyway so this action might happen not on every sheet processed.

Regards

Neville

[Will Williamson]

Try turning the duct collection off and let the tool path pack with dust this is our solution which usually works. Thanks to Mike Murry's suggestion some tiime back.

[Michael S Murray]

Also watch your brushes on your dust shroud, I keep an extra on with no brushes for cutting small pcs.