Learn/Router/Machine & sheet setup
Sheet & parts
At a glance
- Drag, rotate, nest, and box-select parts on the active sheet—same affordances as Plasma and Laser
- Parts browser with locks, visibility, and per-part regeneration
- Shared transform HUD for mirror, numeric move, and rotation on selected parts
The Router canvas is a top-down view of your machine bed, drawn from the active machine profile, with the current sheet sitting on it. The sidebar's Sheet section and the Sheet Properties dialog set material, thickness, width and height, the origin corner that maps to sheet-coordinate zero, X/Y offsets, and — unique to Router — a Z Origin of Top of Material or Spoilboard, which decides where WCS Z0 lands when you post and simulate.
Sheets and loose parts
Jobs can span multiple sheets. The active sheet always sits on the bed — posting and simulation are relative to its origin — while other sheets line up beside it, dimmed but still editable. Parts not assigned to any sheet are loose: they wait in the staging strip beside the sheets after import or Rip Up Nest. Drag a loose part onto a sheet to assign it, or drag a placed part off to free it again.
Moving and transforming
Click selects, Shift+click adds, and dragging on empty space box-selects. Dragging a selected part moves the whole selection; with Bump Stop on, parts stop against each other instead of overlapping. Rotate with Shift+wheel, or right-click for Rotate 90° CW/CCW and an exact Rotate… dialog. The transform HUD above the viewport gives numeric entry: X/Y position, absolute angle for a single part (a delta angle when several are selected), and Mir X / Mir Y mirror toggles.
The Parts browser
Every part appears in the browser tree with a lock and a visibility eye. Locked parts refuse to move and act as fixed obstacles during nesting; hidden parts stay in the job but out of the way. Right-clicking a part opens the full menu — Duplicate, Multiple Duplicate…, Grid Array…, Scale…, Simplify…, Common Grid…, Fill Sheet, Delete, Properties — and right-clicking a single contour goes deeper with per-contour lead and feedrate overrides. See duplicate parts for how copies share generated toolpaths.