auto tab software
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 12:14 pm
Hi all,
I'm new to laser cutting but not to computer design, having been a broadcast animator for 25 years +.
Is there a way in any of the software you guys use that will automatically add tabs to stop the central islands falling out ? It sounds lazy (and is) but I don't really want to have to trawl through my quite complex designs, spotting the bits that might fall out and adding tabs.
Obviously some bits are supposed to fall out, so I was thinking a mechanism which analyses the design and highlights the islands that will fall out, the user can then deselect the ones they want to fall out, then at the click of a button, the other are tabbed automatically.
Surely, someone must have been as lazy as me?
any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Matt
I'm new to laser cutting but not to computer design, having been a broadcast animator for 25 years +.
Is there a way in any of the software you guys use that will automatically add tabs to stop the central islands falling out ? It sounds lazy (and is) but I don't really want to have to trawl through my quite complex designs, spotting the bits that might fall out and adding tabs.
Obviously some bits are supposed to fall out, so I was thinking a mechanism which analyses the design and highlights the islands that will fall out, the user can then deselect the ones they want to fall out, then at the click of a button, the other are tabbed automatically.
Surely, someone must have been as lazy as me?
any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Matt