Vectric Customer

Are there libraries to compute geometry operations like intersection, union, and subtraction from a LUA script?

I'd like something that operates like the "Weld Selected Vectors", "Subtract Vectors", and "Keep Overlap of Vectors" buttons in the UI, but operates on Contour objects in LUA.

This is perfect. Thank you for the help. I'm glad I hadn't missed something obvious and I'm glad the API exists.

Is there a way to get the name of a layer from an instance of a CadObject? CadObject.LayerId and CadObject.RawLayerId both seem to return GUIDs CadLayerManager has an enumerator for layers and Get/FindLayerWithName. This seems to take the layer name, not the GUID. Each CadLayer has a .Name field, bu...

Mike, I made exactly what you illustrated and it is working very well. An advantage of using a single hole on one edge is that it doesn't matter what the size of the material is, as long as I can spare 0.125" on one edge, I can use this jig. I don't have a picture today, but the part I machined that...

Ah! Thank you for the link. I am new here and will definitely be checking that out. Today I did take Mike's advice and put the alignment hole at the bottom edge of the piece. This worked much better than the middle: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/RUoE3n1caAtXsmN4yZ403nCAUBp2XpNzrTUFZoPzadfAPKZKiG...

Thanks, Mike. I like the idea of drilling a hole on the edge of the material. That way I can line it up by eye instead of messing with moving the spindle up and down. Once I've drilled into the jig once, I can drop the spindle and move the jig up against the tool in the spindle, then clamp down the ...

When you are machining both sides of a piece of stock, it's critical to line up the part precisely when flipping it over. If you don't have an elaborate setup, it may be difficult to precisely measure the distance to an edge of your material or line up your spindle with an edge of the material. Here...

These are excellent instructions! I've been wanting to machine some gears for a clock project, but couldn't find great instructions. I did some searching for how to draft involute gears, but the instructions were incomprehensible. These instructions are great and they will be very helpful.