Feature idea: operation to finally cut tags

When toolpath creation hits a tag, it generates the “jump” movement. Couldn’t the coordinates be kept/stored for later? It appears doable to generate the opposite/reverse cut from date to clean up/remove all tags later in a final operation? Items will most likely not move with a straigth cut of a small tag. For minimal tags (Tool diameter + 1mm) a plunge in center and a 1mm left/right movement will eliminate them…

If you do that you will have a loose part to go flying or get ruined…..are you planning to hold down the part with screws before that final operation?…If so you can hold down the stock, drill holes in the part, add screws to the holes to hold down the part….you do not need tabs (tags) then.

Of course you are right with small parts! However, I do a lot of nesting (Nesting - sharing my experiences and some ideas for improvements) with furniture parts and most times I do not use Tags at all as I can leave enought space between them which holds them until the final cut. However, to get the maximum out of one stock plate of wood, I could set them up with a distance equal to tool diameter and have tags to keep the structure stable.

Tags are a pain when you have laminated material. “Plunging the tags away” will work for sure in this case.

I am not understanding at this point in the cutting how you are holding the parts….are there holes to use?….vacuum table, glue?….any of those would mean you do not need the TABS, or perhaps you are just plunging down and the parts do not go flying?,…..maybe you have explained it and I missed it ….if so sorry.

as an alternative if you have solved the holding part…you could reprogram the cut without the TABs as that would work with this version of the software although it would take more time.

I use a belt sander from Horror Freight to take the Tabs off very quickly …..I do not think it will ruin your plywood.

https://www.harborfreight.com/1-in-x-30-in-belt-sander-58359.html

Parts of the size of 15x500x500mm will not fly away or even move if you plunge a tag away. You can cut them even without tags if the last 10mm of cut keep the part connected to some stable remaining structure.

Consider an (expensive) 10mm Plexiglas element of that size: it is really heavy and will not move when cut. But when parts in nesting are plaeced really close (diameter of tool… here 8mm) the tool passes the same path twice (one time for each part). Then tags are a must!

After that you have to get the tags cut to take the elements out of the nesting.

Example (cut with 8mm tool and a spacing of 8mm between parts: