A tabbed outside cut is trimmed short of its entry, but the trim only
handled lines and arcs: a round part's outline is one circle, so it was
cut whole. Plan Cutting counted it as tabbed and called the plan ready,
then the pre-post review found no tab and warned that the part may tip.
Cut a tabbed circle as an arc that stops the tab's chord short of its
entry, travelling the circle's own way.
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Small parts on a coarse support grid (the help tutorial's 5 x 5 gussets
on a 2 inch grid) rest on one or two points, so no single tab could
steady them and every plan came back unverified. New cutting settings
now start "Tab alone holds parts up to" at 6; settings saved without the
field still read as 0, so existing settings keep their meaning.
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Small parts such as 1.5" test squares on a 2" laser grid rest on at most
one grid point, so no single support tab can bring their center of
gravity inside the contacts and Plan Cutting warned "no single tab can
steady it" on every one. In practice a part that short stays in the
sheet on its tab, so the bed's contacts don't matter.
Cutting Settings > Tabs gets "Tab alone holds parts up to N long"
(CuttingParameters.TabHeldMaxLength, 0 = off, the default). On a plate
with a bed, a part the bed can't hold level whose length (long side of
its minimum-area bounding rectangle) is within the limit is still
tabbed, but any tab clear of inside corners steadies it, so Plan
Cutting, hand-placed lead-ins and the pre-post review warn only when it
has no tab at all. The setting persists with the cutting parameters and
is part of the plan state fingerprint.
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