Placing nicks in 1ups

To place single nicks

While placing nicks in a 1up, you specify their style, position and gap (for double and triple nicks).

1. With the 1up drawing open, on the Diemaking toolbar, click Place Nicks .

A contextual edit bar appears above the graphical area.

2. (Optional) If you plan to have the nick processed in bridge and CAM drawings, click Smart Nick .

THE SMART NICK FUNCTIONALITY: The Smart Nick functionality creates an object for the nick that will be transferred as a nick object to bridge and CAM drawings. If the Smart Nick functionality is not used, the nick is placed as a line object (pictured), which bridge and CAM drawings will ignore.

IMPORTANT: To have the program create the nicks in a CAM drawing, in the CAM template, select the Make gap for nicks check box.

3. Depending on the type of nick that you want to place, click Single Nick , Double Nick or Triple Nick .
4. In the contextual edit bar, in Style select the style that you want the nick to have.

NOTE: If you need the nick in a style that does not appear in the drop-down list, create it.

5. (Optional) In Position, type the distance from the beginning of the object at which you want to position the nick. NOTE: For double and triple nicks, the nick is placed at the middle of the overall width of the two or three nick bars.
6. (Double and triple nicks only) In Gap, type the distance between the cuts forming the double, respectively, triple nick.

NOTE: The gap is the distance between nicks' endmost points.

7. Position the mouse on the object on which you want to place the nicks, and then click. The nick is placed automatically according to the position and gap you have set.

As a result of the nick placement, in the tabular area a record appears in the Layers & Objects tab indicating the nick. If the Smart Nick functionality is used, you see a Multisegment Nick object; if not, you see one line object (for a single-bar nick), or two or three line objects (for two- or three-bar nicks).

To place multiple nicks

When placing multiple nicks, you position nicks along the cutting rule according to a preset pattern. You can choose from five patterns. See Step 2 in the procedure that follows.

1. In the 1up, do any of the following:

• On the Diemaking toolbar, click Place Multiple Nicks .
• On the Objects toolbar, click Place Multiple Nicks .

A contextual edit bar appears.

2. In thes drop-down list, select the pattern that you want the program to place nicks along the object.

3. Select the placing pattern you want.

• Аt equal distances. You set (1) Select the type of nicks you want to place (single, double or triple). Then (2) set how many nicks you want placed (Count) and (3) select how wide they are to be by selecting a style (Style), and (4) in Gap, a gap (for double or triple nicks). In the image below, see four 0.7-mm-wide nicks placed at equal distances along the object.

• At half-distance for ends. You set (1) Select the type of nicks you want to place (single, double or triple), (2) how many nicks you want placed (Count), (2) select how wide they are to be by selecting a style (Style), (3) the gap between them (Gap) (for double and triple nicks). In the image below, see four single nicks placed with the end ones positioned at a distance from the ends that's half that between each of the middle ones. There is no gap here.

• At a set distance for ends. You set (1) Select the type of nicks you want to place (single, double or triple), (2) how many nicks you want placed (Count), (3) select how wide they are to be by selecting a style (Style), (4) the gap between them (Gap) (for double or triple nicks) and (5) the distance from the ends of the object (Distance). In the image below, you see four single nicks placed along an object, with the end ones placed at 10 mm from the left and right ends of the object. There is no gap here.

• With a spacing between the nicks. You set (1) Select the type of nicks you want to place (single, double or triple), (2) the distance between the nicks (Step), (3) select how wide they are to be by selecting a style (Style) and (4) the gap between them (Gap) (for double or triple nicks). In the image below, you see single nicks placed along the object, each one at a distance of 30 mm from the next. There is no gap here.

• By applying your own pattern. You type (1) the pattern for the placement of nicks, then (2) the distance from the ends of the object (Distance), (3) select how wide they are to be by selecting a style (Style) and then (4) the gap between them (Gap) (for double or triple nicks). In the image below, you see single, double and triple nicks placed along the object in the 1-1-2-3-2-1-1 pattern. For the double and triple nicks, the gap is 5 mm.

Tabular representation and selections

After you have placed a nick, a record of the nick object appears in the tabular area.

For single one-notch nick:

For single two-notch nick:

While drawing nicks:

Actual nicks, placed in different styles (sizes):

When zoomed out: draw markers substitute the actual nicks whose size in pixels has become smaller than the set size for draw markers.