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PointTrace from Pendant

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Feature Request

Matt Rohrer8 days ago6 comments

Testing the PointTrace out, this is a game changer compared to hours spent measuring cardboard patterns, then cutting out templates and twealing the pattern.

Now, can I control the capture via the pendant buttons somehow? rather than having to run to the control each time?

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Travis GillinStaff5 days ago

Thanks! I'm not going to claim any +/- tolerances on this feature. It does get you close though. It's great for Skeletons that can be set as the plate material so you can quickly auto-nest on an existing plate with a bunch of cuts and the accuracy is good for that. It can be faster for small parts using the layout board that's printed off. When you snap a picture of a cardboard template for example sitting on top of the layout board, it's perspective and scale are automatically calculated based on the printed off reference. The traces are points only so typically I would recommend creating a new sketch layer on top of it, then RE over top of that to get clean geometry while using the trace as a reference for stuff that is hard to measure. For larger stuff that needs to be very accurate, PointTrace is the way to go but that can be more time consuming as well. It's really just another tool available for RE, They both have their places and one doesn't really replace the other.

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