Re: BobCAD/CAM v.s. Dolphin CAD/CAM

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "imserv1" <imserv@v...> wrote:

> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "stevenson_engineers" <machines@n...>
> wrote:
> > --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "imserv1" <imserv@v...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Direction and order selected = cut sequence and direction
> > > Direction/order drawn <> cutting in Vector
> > >
> > > Best Fred
> >
> > Sorry Fred,
> > I must be having a bad night. Can you further explain the last
>line.
>
> It does not matter to Vector in what manner you have drawn your
> geometry. Left Right, right left, CW, CCW, lines on top of lines,
> Arcs added after lines in a rectangle with filleted corners.
>Vector
> will combine the duplicated entities with a reorganize and then
>Chain
> select the geometry in a logical cutting order, even though the
>data
> base is organized with all the pink lines first, then all the blue
>90
> degree arcs, then all the green lines that are .5 long and .1
>thick.
> If they all form a chain, that is, the end of one entity is close
> enough to the next, Vector will select the entities in order from
> beginning to end and the resulting CNC code will sequentially
>follow
> the selection with no regard to the techniques used to draw the
>file.
>
> Hope that helps.
>

Yes that's fine Fred I understand that now.
What I still don't understand is why if direction doesn't matter does
Vector need to show the arrows?
Is this so you can see the way it's going to cut before it generates
the code on the fly?

John S.