Hi Stefano, Yes, I've been working more on the code than the docs these days. To break geometry into pieces: Select the geometry object that you would like to break apart and click "Cut Path". The "Cut Path" also works with a **target** and multiple **tools**. When you select multiple objects, the first is the target and all the rest at the tools. The tools subtract from the target but braking apart the target first. This is, if the target is a polygon (closed path) it will extract the boundary of the polygon as a line and the subtract from it. As opposed to the "Polygon Subtraction" tool which cuts area away from the target. I will probably add this to the manual soon. Hope it helped. JP
Hello JP, FlatCAM has been great so far and I wanted to try making custom board cutouts. I tried editing geometries using squares and polygons for making custom board cutouts. What I did was load a gerber file containing the shape of the custom cutout and generated the initial geometries. It was when I tried cutting gaps in the generated outline that I did not succeed the first few times as I could not draw the shapes likes rectangles and circles. It took a while of pressing the Ctrl, Shift, and Alt keys when I accidentally pressed the Spacebar key. It was then that I was able to insert new geometry. Is this a bug or should this be in the manual?
Could you please describe the exact sequence of events?
Sure! Here it is. 1.) I followed the tutorial detailed here: http://caram.cl/software/flatcam/board-cutout-with-flatcam/. 2.) When I reached Step 3, I couldn't draw rectangles or any shape. This is where I was wondering if I should perform key combinations for this step to work. This was where I realized that I should press the Spacebar key before I could draw anything. 3.) After this, I followed the rest of the tutorial without any problems.
I can't reproduce the problem. I can draw right away. If I remember well, the spacebar key is used to finalize a task. For example, when drawing a polygon, use the spacebar to set the last point. There are no other uses of this key in the program. On what OS is this happening? I assume it's on FlatCAM 8.3 or the latest from source? JP
That's strange. I was using FlatCAM 8.3 on Windows 8.1.
I have never tried Windows 8.1 though. Maybe it's OS specific.