Layers in Carbide Create

[GJM (Gary Morgen)]

The Golden Record of layer management, in my eyes, is Photoshop. They really have mastered the whole layer concept. I would defer to their standards:
CTRL-A is Select ALL - literally ALL…across layers
CTRL-Click on the Layer in the Layers dialog selects all on that layer. The equivalent in CC would be right-click on the layer and select Select All on this Layer.

Photoshop’s version works well because the layer dialog is docked and usually available on the screen. You click to activate the layer, your ctrl click to select everything on it (and only that layer…it doesn’t add to the current selection as CC seems to do right now). I’d like to see the Layers dialog docked (#12 above)…which would likely solve your problem easily.

[GJM (Gary Morgen)]

@fenrus

And you can pick colors that are not-orange-or-pink to not confuse Julien or Gary.

I don’t know about Julien, but it takes a lot more to NOT confuse Gary!

[fenrus (Arjan van de Ven)]

I’ll be happy to defer to Photoshop as ultimate experience for this. My request is mostly rooted in the number of clicks that are currently needed to get this common thing (especially with layers, it’s going to be much more common than I’d have this before).

[GJM (Gary Morgen)]

@GJM

your ctrl click to select everything on it (and only that layer…it doesn’t add to the current selection as CC seems to do right now).

I just added this to my list above as #13. Standard behavior in CC is to deselect what’s currently selected when you select something else - unless CTRL or SHIFT is pressed. Same should hold true for this option.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Shift adds or removes an object from the current selection in current versions.

Control was used in older versions.

[GJM (Gary Morgen)]

@WillAdams OK…but Layers - Select all in this layer ADDS to the selection, it does not replace it. That’s the defect I’m pointing out.

[fenrus (Arjan van de Ven)]

Tutorial (slightly WIP but still) done:

Making a stacked-text sign using the new layer feature in Carbide Create (version 521+)

The folks at Carbide3D announced a new beta feature in Carbide Create: Layers. [PXL_20210515_155150934] This tutorial gives this new feature a spin using the beta version, to make a stacked-text sign. I’ll try to make this an entry-level tutorial (screenshots for every small step) for those who are relatively new to CNC and want to make their own stack text signs. For the example I’ll stack “your” on top of “text here”… since that’s boring in general you should replace that with the text you…

[fenrus (Arjan van de Ven)]

@robgrz I noticed that loading a c3d file (from the tutorial) created in v522 into v524 caused most of my toolpaths to get messed up (basically, some of the “selections” went away causing the pockets to either not exist or to cut too much). Is this an expected thing?

(not too big a deal if it’s expected, was easy to recreate)

[robgrz (Rob Grzesek (Carbide 3D))]

There was a bug in 521-523 that caused layer information to be saved incorrectly so, while it wasn’t expected, it probably is what it is. 524 should be fixed.

[GJM (Gary Morgen)]

Checked out 524 and created an example of how Layers can be really useful here. The new copy feature (as requested by @fenrus) caused me to add a #14 to the list above.

Thanks,

• Gary

[gsrunion (Gerald Runion)]

I had been leveling on my Create skills for the past week or so trying to get this carve design to work the way I wanted. I ultimately got it working without layers but immediately saw how layers would have been a boon when trying to tackle the problem in the first place.

@robgrz do you guys allow developers to contribute to CC?

[robgrz (Rob Grzesek (Carbide 3D))]

@gsrunion

do you guys allow developers to contribute to CC?

We don’t. While we give it away to use, Carbide Create is closed source.

@gsrunion

I ultimately got it working without layers but immediately saw how layers would have been a boon when trying to tackle the problem in the first place.

If we had it to do over, we would have skipped grouping back in the day and just added layers from the start. The more we play with them, the more useful they are.