Palette - from the palette pull down select the palette for the outer dieboard extents.
Width - from the Method pull down select required option:
Fixed width (centre) - position the shells central to the cut or selected extents of the design.
Use design width - define the offset distance from the wood extents on the side-lay and off-lay relative to the cut or selected extents of the design.
Fixed width - left - define the width of the wood with a fixed offset on the left of the cut or selected extents of the design.
Fixed width - right - define the width of the wood with a fixed offset on the rights of the cut or selected extents of the design.
Full Shell - will create full length shells using the optimal lengths defined in the shell size page.
Locked - if the option to check wood size is enabled then enabling these options will lock these values and resize the wood from the locked sides.
From Variable f(x) - With any of the Fixed Width settings, the value can be loaded from an existing Layer Variable or Project Variable, with the Layer Variable taking precedence over the Project Variable if both exist. Please see Diemaker Project Variables for more information.
Height - From the Method pull down select required option:
Fixed height - fixed height of the wood specifying a fixed grip edge value from the bottom of the wood to the cut or selected extents of the design.
Use design height - specify the distance from the edge of the wood on the top and bottom to the cut or selected extents of the design
Fixed height (centre) - fixed height of the wood relative to the cut or selected extents of the design with an optional offset in Y.
Full Cylinder - this is the calculated circumference of the wood at print repeat based upon the effective shell radius and allowing for the effective stop width.
Full shell - using the offset values from cut or selected extents the overall wood size extends to the full shell height defined on the shell size page.
Locked - if the option to check wood size is enabled then enabling these options will lock these values and resize the wood from the locked sides.
From Variable f(x) - With any of the Fixed Height settings, the value can be loaded from an existing Layer Variable or Project Variable, with the Layer Variable taking precedence over the Project Variable if both exist. Please see Diemaker Project Variables for more information.
The minimum and maximum values for the wood and height will override any calculated values.
Confirm size before creation - if this option is enabled the wood size mode will start on creation of the wood showing the overall woodsize and position of any split lines allowing the user to modify these values before any standard parts are positioned.
Edit size after creation - determines if the wood size mode is available once all the standard parts have been placed. The user can still change the wood size /shell sizes interactively using the shell mode.
Use laser offsets - to add the laser beam allowance to the width and height check this option and add the Beam width.
Place into a new block - determines if the wood extents are to be placed into a block of the specified Name.
Special output block - if the wood is placed in a block, then if this option is checked the woodsize will be optimised with any one-up design when output to the laser.
Tie Bridges
Method - From the pull down select Use palette or Specify number. The bridge style will be as the palette attributes.
Use palette will bridge the outer wood size to the bridge mode specified in the defined palette.
Specify number allows you to state the Number in X and the Number in Y and the Bridge Gap.
Any split lines will be bridged according the palette attributes of the split entities.
Corners – defines how the corner of the wood extents are created: square, fillet, chamfer or apply a symbol.