Hi guys,
likely a question with a simple answer here, but try that I may, I can’t figure it out. I’ve searched the internet, watched videos, and searched topics here in the forum, can’t find what I’m looking for. I’m making a pegboard to hold a lot of shop tools. I could do it the old fashioned way (mark the locations and grab a drill), but I’m trying to LEARN Easel.
here is my problem: ALL of the measurements are from the upper edge (half from the upper left, half from the upper right). In attempting to place the circles, I know that I can position them from the lower left - OR - the center of the material.
I suspect that there is a way to set the design location from anywhere else, I just can’t figure it out.
I need to get this done, so I am sitting here doing mate (taking the measurement from the upper left, and subtracting the total height of the material (for those measurements, I’ll need to also subtract the distance from the width of the material). Due to time constraints, this is how this will be done. Is what it is. HOWEVER, I would really like to learn from this experience. Could someone tell me how to set my design location to somewhere other than the lower left corner or the center of the work piece?
Again, in a condensed description, I have a peg that needs to be located 2" from the top (Y), and 2.5" from the left (X), but am here doing math to figure out the Y axis location. For half of the locations, I’ll be doing math for both X AND Y locations.
Is there a simple way to change the design’s “start point” to anywhere other than lower left or center of material?
THANK you in advance.
Still learning
All my best,
Joe
Does the upper left circle help out?
How about this ? I defined a 5 x 5 square and then placed the hole to your specs. Then you could select the square and make the depth of cut zero.
I’m a little bit confused, so forgive me.
I have the center ‘dot’ checked because I want the circle located to the ‘center’ - by this I mean that the hole is 5/8" and I want the center of that 5/8" at the position. That is how I understand those five ‘dots’ work. It certainly appears that way, because when I change that to say the one in the upper left, my circle then moves down and to the right, meaning that the location is now no longer ‘centered’ on the measurement.
HOWEVER, what I want to learn how to do is get the measurements that I enter into the “X” and “Y” boxes to measure from the top left of the material.
Does that make sense?
Am I misunderstanding your answer (absolutely possible)?
(BTW, I finished the design by using good old math, but figure that this is a good opportunity to learn.)
Looking at my little hole drawn above, I think a verbal description of it would be " shape" a .250 x .210 oval/ circle with the center located 2.5 inches in the x axis and 3 inches in the y axis from the bottom left corner aka zero.
You type the position into the little windows.
At this point I don’t see how you can change the graph in Easel. You could draw your drawing in Cad and make the upper left corner zero, with all the other stuff below that.
Remember that homing the machine makes that point zero.
Easel can’t be everything in 3D cad yet.
Thank you Martin,
So if I’m following you - which I ‘Believe’ that I am, than the answer is ‘no’ I cannot design from anywhere other than lower left or center of material.
That’s fine, I can do math.
I don’t know CAD, I’m an old timer woodworker not a computer guy. It takes less time for me to do math than a couple semesters at a local community college to learn yet another computer program.
Not that anyone cares what I think, but if anyone from Inventables is reading this, it would seem obvious to me that the user should be able to choose where the design ‘start’ point is.
The measurements for this very simple plan were measured from a fixed point, which just so happens to be the upper left.
Anyway, thank you for answering the question. As mentioned, I’m just trying to learn - the hard way mostly.
All my best,
Joe
I’ve not used this, but my friend has. , I’m old school too, but a lifelong learner :-).
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