@ChrisMonck, how big a bit were you using?
The tabs button is only shown when the selected shape is an outline cut with a depth set to the full thickness of the material. If it wasnât set to cut all the way through you wonât see the checkbox.
Not sure about chris but my but was 1/4in and had the same out come on the tabs
It looks the up and down movements for Easelâs tabs currently are 0.3" apart, not accounting for the bit diameter. With a 0.25" bit that would only leave 0.05" for the actual tab. Thanks for reporting thatâweâll fix it.
1/4"
We pushed a fix today for the tab sizing problem when using 1/4" bits.
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Iâve actually stopped running tabs and let the shop vac grab em. Bit unpredictable but teaches you tool paths pretty quick. Get it wrong and you have to look through the vac bag. 
Early Christmas please 
I am cutting an airplane pattern from 1/8" plywood. Parts are pretty small (some 1/4" x 1") and very difficult to cut the tabs off since they are more than 1/2 the thickness of the plywood. Using a knife or Dremel results in damage to parts.
Your proposed changes in message 5 (See where tabs will be madePosition tabs anywhere on the profileAdd/remove tabsSpecify tab widthSpecify tab height) will give lots of options and make this type of project doable!
Looking forward to itâs implementation too.
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Crossing my fingers the early access will be ready for the weekend⌠I donât feel like removing 12 tabs per piece (100 belt slides) = 1200 tabs 
Oh dear @JeffTalbot
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Iâm putting off a few jobs waiting on this as well.
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Pretty please.
âInteractive tabs featureâ access please!
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Tick Tack
Hi @JohnSorensen (and others),
Thanks for being patient on this. I hadnât wanted to reply until the feature was available, but I thought Iâd drop in a note to let you all know that itâs getting closer. I canât commit to an exact delivery date, but I have put in some significant time recently, and it is progressing through the stages to being released.
You might have read the post on Easelâs new architecture. My initial prototype of this feature was built on the old architecture, so I had to do some work to move it over to the new one. Thatâs been completed. I then came up with a new approach for generating the tab tool paths that I think is much more performant and requires much less code, but did require some modifications to our core tool path generation logic. Thatâs also been completed. (Side note, a benefit of this is that tabs now preview on the righthand side in real time as you move them around. Tabs currently donât preview at all on the 3D side and you have to click âShow Toolpathsâ to see them.) Iâve also added text fields to the cut settings panel to control tab height and width. Iâm in the final stages of getting our automated tests working with this feature, doing some physical tests on actual jobs, and then it will be submitted for review by the rest of our team.
As I said before, this feature isnât one of our top priorities (we have have to consider the overall feedback of the entire user base when setting priorities), and it is fairly complex, so it isnât moving quite as quickly as a feature normally would. I apologize for that.
Jeff
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Thanks and you just taught me a new word.
performant â(comparative more performant, superlative most performant)
(jargon, chiefly computing) Capable of or characterized by an adequate or excellent level of performance or efficiency.
usage:
Ours is a performant network monitoring and systems monitoring tool.
This software is more performant than its predecessor.
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Thanks for the update @JeffTalbot - looking forward to it!
For those interested in this feature, I have a question.
When this feature is rolled out, if you open a project you had worked on before this feature was rolled out that used tabs and those tabs are in a different location than they were before, would that be a problem? (Remember, they could be moved now.)
Jeff
If that was the only way to get adjustable tabs I could live with it. It would be annoying to need to reposition the tabs each time the project was opened though.
This would be especially annoying since my normal workflow is to create/edit my design on a computer in my office and then load the file into Easel on on the shop computer for carving.
I would need to re-edit the tabs on the shop computer each time I wanted to carve it.
This would only happen the first time you opened an old project. Right now Easel doesnât store tab positions. With the new feature it does. But the new feature uses different logic for selecting an initial position.