I’m just getting started and am having issues following the tutorials, specifically https://docs.carbide3d.com/tutorials/makey/.
when trying to select the 1st step I cannot get it to be like that shown
(https://docs.carbide3d.com/tutorials/makey/img/mm_select_center.png) is the tutorial pic
Strange. The same thing happens for me when I follow through the steps in the tutorial. I even tried opening the finished .c2d file, and it does the same thing. I’m using CC Build 460.
@WillAdams Any idea what’s going on here?
Yep, re-confirmed here too if following exactly the steps in the tutorial (EDIT: using CC462 and importing the SVG)
Note1: this tutorial is ancient (not that this is any excuse). The pocket toolpath generation logic may have changed. @fenrus should know, but I thought CC used the odd/even logic to determine which areas needed to be left alone, and it’s not consistent between the top and bottom half of the circle:
Note2: The illustrations and text do not match here:
(while the snapshot shows only the “M” being unselected)
Note3: here’s a weird workaround I noticed while playing with it:
Initially select ALL features including the M and create the pocket:
Just before clicking “OK” to validate the toolpath, deselect the M, and voilà:
Note4: even weirder, once you have done Note3, if you delete the toolpath and re-create it the “normal” way (select everything then unselect the M then create the toolpath)…it works as expected.
I’m on a Mac, which “shouldn’t” make any difference but I cannot in any manner get it to appear as you have. I always have some portion of the M or circle around the M being pocketed.
as an aside. what does the dotted line around the lower torso mean, does it denote something?
The dotted line just highlights the latest selected feature when doing a multi-selection
If you really want to cut that specific project, we can find a workaround (with a little copy/paste/boolean operations) that will work, let me fire up CC
copy/paste the M and center circle and put them elsewhere:
delete the central M, do a boolean union of the remaining three pieces in the center:
Select everything but the M&circle copy:
Pocket will be correct:
Bring the copied M&circle back in the center:
And proceed
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