Quick question I haven’t been able to figure out. Say I have a dozen different objects laid out on a sheet in Estlcam. Is there an easy way to disable some of them for a given run?
My use case is that I might lay out a bunch of pieces on a sheet, maybe even copies of the same piece, but want to print one to see if I have the settings dialed in right, or know I won’t have time to babysit the full sheet but want to come back and print the rest at their proper locations.
An easy way conceptually would be to set the part number to 0 or a negative number, but those already have meaning in Estlcam. What I’ve been doing is keeping a master project file and then deleting the objects I don’t want to print and saving that as a new print file, which works but is clumsy.
That’s the way to do it, no way to disable it in the file before cutting. If you were using Estlcam as the controller you could jump to certain parts by clicking them and start the cut from there, so you could cut one before the rest, but there is no way to modify the file itself.
If a project involves a tool change, I save one program per tool based on the same drawing and same origin.
I also use some logo drawings where I may want to engrave just one of several related logos. Those often get different origins for different logos.
But I do end up just deleting the unwanted cuts and leaving the set I want. I have a couple of saved projects like that.l, notably my LR3 flat parts cut files, and now the LR4 XZ plate cut files.