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Duh..........My apologies! I inadvertently used the edit/analyze dim tool, repeatedly I must have used the proper one once. Stress!
What a difference a weekend makes.

Yes, using the dimension tool. I'm not feeling overly cozy with the 12.004 user interface on several issues, not including this. Without backwards save compatibility I now have to redo a couple hours of work in 11.55. Lovely.

Hello, To my dismay, 12.004's dimension tool keeps closing when I try to place any measured dimension on my drawing. It worked once, randomly, out of at least a dozen tries. I'm on a PC running an old HP Z4 workstation, Windows 10 with 32 GB and Xeon. Never once had this happen with 11.55 and earlie...

Again, amazing. That's a lot for a novice to digest. I'll tinker with it over and over. Thanks again.

Amazing, how quickly you did this, Steve. I see it as 4 components......the inner closed loop polar arrayed, outer closed loop again polar arrayed, the diagonal (corner to corner) closed loop (copied and rotated 90) and simple central dome. I tried scanning the original. The scan was "OK" though wit...

Yes, the rails themselves are limited to z=0. That can't be changed. But, you can achieve similar things by adding the second sweep or as many additional sweeps as necessary to get the effect you want. For example, what if you wanted to have the two edges undulate differently? In the top version of...

That sure would be nice to have :D I don't know of a way, but if there is a way - I wanna know it as well. It maybe can be some sort of workaround. I know there are ways to create a lot of shapes using other tools. I have created leaves, thistle flowers, scallop shell, sand dollars, whales and lots...

You can't do it in a single sweep. Has to be done in 2 sweeps perpendicular to each other. See pictures below. First picture shows the two sweeps separate. Second shows them combined. The rails on the top sweep are on the long axis of the sweep. The rails on the bottom sweep are on the short axis. ...

I mostly get two rail sweeps, how to combine profiles etc. My question regards creating 2 rail swept components in Z, where the drive rails themselves have curvature in Z height, NOT just x and y. How is this set up? Rails curved in Z as initial setup, or curved after 2 ( or 1) rail sweep creation. ...

Thank you both for your suggestions. Yes, anything that cuts down on the tedious nature of doing this from scratch is immensely helpful when working under time constraints.

Very grateful!
Anton

Hello, I am tasked with machining about 40 of these for a church refurbish. 3D printing or anything other than wood not allowed. These are to be scaled to about 3" square. The originals were hand carved, and I know replicating that degree of nuance would be a machine time nightmare, so smoothing exp...

Thank you. I did not realize the path must be set on the line, and I was asking for bidirectional cuts on one side of the line. A quick work around is to just offset my original lines by half the tool bit diameter, and bingo.

Hello, I have occasional need to slice rectangular material through its length. Is there some way of assigning bidirectional toolpaths for cutting pieces? It's a waste of movement to have (for example) thick material cut in multiple passes from the same start point when the spindle can more efficien...

It might be easier to cut it as a 2-sided project. I used the moulding toolpath here and it's really crude and needs refinement. Yes, thank you, I did think to do this the simpler, conventional way, i.e. non rotary, but thought to use this little project to revisit the rotary axis on my router for ...

It might be easier to cut it as a 2-sided project. I used the moulding toolpath here and it's really crude and needs refinement. Yes, thank you, I did think to do this the simpler, conventional way, i.e. non rotary, but thought to use this little project to revisit the rotary axis on my router for ...