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Filter and optionally scale elements dialog

Filter and optionally scale elements dialog

This dialog will be prompted when you use one of these functions included in the Startup dialog:

• 'Cut Parts'
• 'Cut Nested Parts'
• 'Cut Along Vector'
• 'Cut a new Tapered Part'

then you select a vectorial (Dxf, Dwg, Dc1, Hpgl, Plt) file and the "Selection dialog when a you import Vectorial elements..." option included in the Setting menu of the Startup dialog is enabled.

The basic ideas of this dialog are:

Check and select the elements you are going to cut

You will see the validated Elements in the list and in the 2D preview.
If no Elements are included probably the original file includes bad geometries. In this case see CNC and dirty geometries. How can I clean them?
If you see multiple parts, and you want:

• to select only one of them, we suggest to click the desired Element (this will select it also in the Filtered elements list), then press the Keep only selected element button.
• to select only some of them, we suggest to click one by one the unwanted Elements (this will select it also in the Filtered elements list), then press the Delete selected element button.

You can go back to all the element pressing the Restore all original elements button

If the result is not what you expected, press the Advanced: Abort and go to manually fix... to open the actual situation in a Cad document, so that you could fix the problem by hand.

Change the size of the elements

You can rescale the elements in this way:

• click the Element you want to use as a reference for the size, this will select it also in the Filtered elements list. Now you can see the actual Width and Height of the selected Element in the edit controls
• insert the desired Width or Height, then press the related <- Rescale To button

Note: the same scale will be applied to All the elements

You can also select to not display any more this dialog next time, and you see there also how to enable it again, if you like.

When you finished just press OK to go to the next cutting dialog.

 I suggest also to take a look at this page, to better understand some important concepts of devFoam: DevFoam FAQ and important concepts