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2-Way Offsets Coming out Backwards
« on: Nov 03, 2008, 21:14:52 PM »
We seem to have been lucky up to this point with our downloads, in that we have burned nothing but centerline trannies or one side flat. We just had our first job with a 2-way offset tranny, and the thing came out backwards.
Is there a check box that I don't know about? Options for the offsetting fittings. Right now we are set up to develop the trannies top down and right side in, in the options tab of the item.
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Re: 2-Way Offsets Coming out Backwards
« Reply #1 on: Nov 04, 2008, 00:11:08 AM »
It could be a couple of things. Are you sure that you are putting the labels on the right side of the metal? We cut from the outside and there is an option for labels on the inside or outside in the options tab. The other thing could be that the guys in the shop don't understand what the gum label says when it comes to breaking the fitting. It is not the same as what Vulcan says, the terminolgy is different. When it says break dn 6" that means that end 2 is 6" lower than end one. Look in the help menu in the Cam and there is a section on how to read the gum labels.

We had this problem of the fittings being broke wrong until we found the note that told us how to read the label. It is totally opposite than what it sounds like.
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Re: 2-Way Offsets Coming out Backwards
« Reply #2 on: Nov 04, 2008, 11:47:09 AM »
Set up as you are, when you draw the tranny your little arrow needs to be pointing to the left or it will come out backwards (mirrored). This is a well documented fact.
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Re: 2-Way Offsets Coming out Backwards
« Reply #3 on: Nov 04, 2008, 12:50:28 PM »
We have had this problem not too long ago, and the problem is NOT that the fitting was made backwards, but rather that our shop floor guys rolled it backwards, they are always used to rolling fitting one way and when a fitting offsets in two directions, you have to be really careful not to roll it the other way....

I was told that there is a way to "MIRROR" the nested sheet, but we have not been able to figure how to do that....
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