Corner treatment
The Corner Treatment panel is used to do various types of special handling at sharp corners of a laser cut. This panel is accessed by clicking near a corner of a laser cut.
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Auto compute: When the auto-compute setting is turned on (the default), Flux computes a suitable corner processing based on the machine, LTT in use and the angle at the corner. If you want to edit the corner treatment, you need to turn this off.
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Treatment: The type of corner treatment (see the table below for details). Some of the treatment methods have a parameter (like radius or time that is used to control the corner process).
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Radius or Time (sec): Some treatments (like Rounding and Looping) need a radius as input. Some like the Dwell and Cool need a delay time.
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The Selectors at the bottom of this panel can be used to extend the set of selected corners so they can all be edited together:
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Similar on this contour: If you click on this, all the corners in this contour having a similar angle to the selected one get highlighted with small blue crosses. Then, all the edits you do will be applied to all these corners.[1]
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All on this contour: Like the selector above, but selects all corners on this contour, regardless of angle.
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Similar on all contours: Selects all similar corners (same angle) on all the tooled-up contours of the part so they can all be edited in parallel.
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Treatment methods
The table below shows the different corner treatment methods. The Rounding and Looping methods visibly alter the geometry of the cut, while the other methods add a small icon at the corner to indicate the type of processing that is happening there.
| Treatment | Explanation | Example |
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Do nothing |
No corner processing performed |
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Rounding |
Rounds off at the corners |
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Looping |
Loops at the corners |
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Dwell |
Dwells at the corners |
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Cool |
Cools down the laser at the corners |
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Stop |
Stops at the corner |
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Slowdown |
Slows down the laser at the corners |
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