Components or groups designed to be exported as path must be 2D and without faces.
Path can have depth, but if a path line is drawn “behind” a face, it will be hidden.
@Early_Hominid, I’ve just dug into this a bit, and my tests suggest that it will be able to automatically expand machining operations at the edge of the part.
The only thing left to do is figure out how to handle all the new problems this raises 
2 Likes
Yes!
This looks very promising. It would also solve the problem of cutting a dado or rebate groove on the extreme edge of a part because typically one does this by extending the pocket/groove cutting into the area beyond the cut profile of the parent part. That is, into the waste area of the material.
I can see how this would open a can of worms with regard to the functionality of OCL! Best of luck!
Regarding the Cabineo, I can’t get your suggestions to work. I too, have done some testing and the closest I can get to what I need it is the attached cut-through component.
Let me know if I can do more testing here.
Thanks for your perseverance on this.
CabineoOCL_1.skp (22.4 KB)
As mentioned, currently you can’t use cut opening component with hole geometry faces if the geometry is placed outside the part shape without changing the part shape.
You can only use cut opening component with edges only exported as path without depth.
TheCabineo.skp (46,2 Ko)
That’s why I try to explore a feature that does the offset automatically.
2 Likes