Ramp out indent

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Neville Bastian
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Ramp out indent

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I might be a bit fussy here but you can see the ramp out when that part happens to be a bottom with the ramp out on the left side that meets up with the side you can see this even if its 0.1mm . I thought a easy way around this would be for the program to put this ramp out on the opposite side to the edging if possible. If front and back is edged that won't work but most kitchen cabinets are only seen one side. The other help would be is to have the ramp out length to be adjustable bit like the way the pockets are handled. It seems the shorter the ramp out the more noticeable the are. So could we have length of ramp out min is say 60mm max is 20% of cut length? That way a 400mm wide board would have a ramp out length of 80mm which is less noticeable that 60mm. As my smallest piece I would cut is 65mm I can't have my default at 80mm.

This a small thing but with little programming it would improve the quality. Maybe if you feel it would be worthwhile add your yes vote.

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Neville
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Ryan Hochgesang

Re: Ramp out indent

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Neville,

We will take this into consideration and in the future, possibly create more ramp-in control.
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Re: Ramp out indent

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Hi Ryan,
Are you sure this is ramp in? This indent happens when it comes back on itself to finish off. I think it may be caused of not having any material to cut so acts a bit differently when the cutter is under load working at its max feed. Another action it could take is move away from the material when it finishes. It may already do this but a curve away when it exits even .01 when would work well.
I may be a bit picky but if this indent is on a edgeband part you can notice the glue line thickens. Of coarse you could turn it around but the sticker says this is the front and that's what the edger does.

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