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It does not work. Made a body, on its surface - a sketch with a drawn grid. I can't make a path on the surface otherwise.

What am I doing wrong?

What line are you trying to draw? As far as I can tell, the top of the model object is perfectly flat.

I'm no expert, but what I would do would be to add the result of the desired cut to the original model and then generate a toolpath for that. So the top of the model would have a slot that matches the desired line, with a width that matched the milling tool I intended to use and a depth that matched the desired depth of the finished line.

Hi memmfis,

open your file with

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shows several error messages, so i can't work with it.

If i look at your object tree, i am missing the original sketch fur the lines to mill outside the Job.
If i create a Sketch and create a Job with this Sketch, it is shown inside and outside the Job (because Path creates a copy of it). And i can create a path with it, using the Engrave tool.

We don't even know which version memfis uses. Perhaps it is sufficient to upgrade to recent 0.19.

The task is simple - to cut out a square pattern from plexiglass. Apply a grid line to its surface.
If you draw lines as lines and apply this sketch to the square surface, the expected behavior would be to select lines and choose engrave or edge. However, it does not work.
Yes, there is a limited compromise - you may select diagonals and sides of the square = extra passages that will spoil the edges of the square.
Another compromise is a sketch used for the grid to draw at once as a future stroke of the cutter.

But these are compromises that are not reasonable - we would like the program to allow you to draw a sketch "as is, as it should be" and not to do the work of a milling cutter's wizard.

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It goes without saying that I myself in the text editor can (and this is faster than creating a sketch - the trajectory of the cutter movement) by hand draw commands G1..... etc. But we are talking about the development of FC.

memfis wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 9:35 am Another compromise is a sketch used for the grid to draw at once as a future stroke of the cutter.

I wouldn't call this a compromise. I find it quite natural to simply create a job with just the sketch as is and use an operation which moves the mill exactly on the lines. That this operation is called "engraving" shouldn't be an insurmountable hurdle.

Hello Memfis,
Since your sketch contains only straight segments, this is possible in version 0.19_pre using the Slot operation. The down side is that you must create an independent operation for each line within the sketch. Using @Herbk and @Chrisb's suggestion of the Engrave operation seems more efficient.

Russell

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Russ4262 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 8:13 pm Hello Memfis,
Since your sketch contains only straight segments, this is possible in version 0.19_pre using the Slot operation. The down side is that you must create an independent operation for each line within the sketch. Using @Herbk and @Chrisb's suggestion of the Engrave operation seems more efficient.

Russell

Of all the previous suggestions, this method (Thank you, Russel) seems to me the best. I solved my problem with my own hands in the g-code editor.

My wife needed (another) stencil to work with the patchwork quilt - time is not waiting, I had to before dinner.