Notches no longer being displayed?

Hi all :blush:

I have been having issues with notches on ‘Pieces’. Initially when I created a new ‘Piece’ from Draft, and having placed Notches as below:

These were displayed as selected.

However I have now Pieces that do not show notches in the Piece as indicated in the properties during (and subsequently) to creation from the Draft:

What is going on? Have I done ‘something’ wrong? I checked on the application’s settings again, but have not found anything that looks incorrect.

Previously created objects are correctly displayed and printed, newly created objects are not.

Thanks for you valued assist, comments and ideas on this.

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Did you check the Notches Geometry “show” settings?

If that’s not the issue if you want to post your pattern I can take a look.

Check your preferences to see what the default “show” settings are for the notches:

If those are unchecked any new notches will also be unchecked.

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Hello @Douglas ,

I have checked on the settings you suggest and all seems to be in line with the setup that I originally decided upon. I spite of this, in the last created ‘Piece’ created - shown in the image - you see that ‘E5’ & ‘E6’ notches do not match the exact same settings that I used for all the others - also those pieces you will find in the included pattern file.

The standard and Piece settings for Notches: ‘Diamond’ on the ‘Cut Line’ …

… you will see that the ‘Diamonds’ on ‘E5’ & ‘E6’ are rotated by 90° and lie along the cut line axis instead being at right angles to that axis.

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I keenly await your analysis … Thanks :blush:

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I’m already guess a few things that could be the issue… the length / angle of the CP’s. Sometimes changing one or the other by as little as .0001 is enough to change the “real” math calculations and things with the SA work. The other thing I found is that when you have points on a curve, it preferes the curve to be drawn clockwise.

At any rate I’ll take a look. :slight_smile:

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Hi @Douglas ,

You are probably right about minimal re-dimensioning! I had to do that because I had forgotten to re-scale the last ‘Piece’ to accommodate the actual seam lengths (and not just the actual ‘Piece’ length) and now everything seem to function as expected.

Thanks for the tip anyway - that could trip anyone up - perhaps a ‘Tips & Tricks’ contribution ??

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hey @DavidDeb

Ok… as I thought just nudging the the position of the points E5 and E6 by -.1mm fixed the issue.

That being said… I noticed that you have arcs drawn near the notch points… was your intent to place the notch points at the intersection of the curve and the arcs? If so you can just use the Intersect curves tool:

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I added E13 in place of E5 as an example… the need for a length formula is not needed and the notch displays correctly.

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Hi @Douglas ,

yes, those were initially there to place the nodes for the notches. The placement was finally executed by means of ‘Point on Spline’ / ‘Point on Curve’ suggested by @nejcek74 I forgot to delete these arcs,

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