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Slotted Metal paths

jaleco
Does anyone know of an updated version of the CCSslotMetal.il script for slotted metal paths?  This code is very old and has little flexibility for things like defining the size of the slots, width of the path, etc.
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  • Hi,

    I am the author of CCSslotMetal.il - it already has an option for the overall path width, and the arrangement is that this is divided into three sections across the total path width such that the slot width is equal to the surrounding path segment widths.  Likewise the slot length is controlled by the length of the subrectangles which are hard-coded such that their length is twice their width - the slots are just the absence of these subrectangles.  This code was mainly written as an example to demonstrate that a call to rodCreatePath can be made interactively, initiated from an enterPath() enter function, and that this can be further controlled or influenced using the commands' Options form.  It should not be too hard for someone to see how to update the ?offsetSubPath and ?subRect arguments so that parameters can be used for the slot width and length.

    The age of the code is not really relevant, unless it stops working or is superseded by something else.  To my knowledge there are not any publicly available updates, but I'm sure that plenty folks have downloaded and then modified the code for their specific requirements.  What would you like to see instead or additionally?

    Regards,

    Lawrence.

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  • Hi,

    I am the author of CCSslotMetal.il - it already has an option for the overall path width, and the arrangement is that this is divided into three sections across the total path width such that the slot width is equal to the surrounding path segment widths.  Likewise the slot length is controlled by the length of the subrectangles which are hard-coded such that their length is twice their width - the slots are just the absence of these subrectangles.  This code was mainly written as an example to demonstrate that a call to rodCreatePath can be made interactively, initiated from an enterPath() enter function, and that this can be further controlled or influenced using the commands' Options form.  It should not be too hard for someone to see how to update the ?offsetSubPath and ?subRect arguments so that parameters can be used for the slot width and length.

    The age of the code is not really relevant, unless it stops working or is superseded by something else.  To my knowledge there are not any publicly available updates, but I'm sure that plenty folks have downloaded and then modified the code for their specific requirements.  What would you like to see instead or additionally?

    Regards,

    Lawrence.

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