Roland CAMM-2 PNC-2300 Owner's Manual download pdf (Page 162)

162 MaxMotion for Machines

a normal shape. If you have some shapes and some templates selected

while invoking this command, view-only status of each will reverse

simultaneously.

A simple use of this feature is to create a number of templates with

desirable borders. These borders will not bother the user while laying

out a plate design. It will be stationery and will not move. The border

can be turned into active part of a job just before sending the job for

engraving.

(4) All the information regarding the job design and Auto Layout is

saved in the file including margins, fonts, size of lines, spacing,

condense factor, etc. This is an ideal situation for creating and saving

templates to simplify job creations. These are the templates such as

regularly used 2 line, 3 line, 4 line jobs with standard selections of fonts

and with the most popular sizes of the plate designs. You can use your

imagination to simplify your tasks.

(5) MaxMotion offers another entity, dot, that can be used for drilling

purpose. In frame (rectangle selection in the Tools menu) mode, click

and release the mouse button without dragging. If your hand is not

steady enough, press Shift key while clicking to avoid dragging. This

will make a dot. Since this single point is difficult to see, we create a

circle around it with a cross hair cursor. This circle is not an entity, and

remains of same size at any zoom value. When sent to output, the dot

should drill hole at its location, but its outer circle does not go to

output, though on output screen as well as on print out, you will see

proportionate circle accompanying the dot.

You can select a dot by clicking within the Bull’s eye. However, for

box selection, the circle is disregarded, only the dot is considered.

A single open line could be selected by clicking near it. This nearness

was arbitrarily hardcoded as 45 pixels. It has been reduced it to the

bull’s eye radius. This nearness selection is extended to any shape

having width or height zero.

CAD programs can create dot patterns, the DXF files generated by

them, are read by MaxMotion. For drilling of PCB boards, an example

of a kind of an application, the circuit diagrams may have already been

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