Report size of cutting path

[LasseThid]

Is it possible to somehow show the size of cutting paths when preflighting?
I'm thinking by perhaps adding an action list and then logging the result somehow.

[laurentd]

Yes, it is possible, using this PitStop action list:

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[LasseThid]

Thanks Laurent...
I'll give that one a try.

Update: It works somewhat... The only thing is it reports to total length of the cut path, i.e for a circle that is 400 mm in diameter it reports 1256.64 mm. If possible I'd like the width and height reported, ie. 400x400 mm in this case.

[laurentd]

If you create an action list with Select spot color + log selection, and generate an XML report, you'll get the bounding box info for that/those object(s):

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    <Warnings>
      <PreflightReportItem ActionID="2079">
        <Message>Cut object(s) found (1x on page 1)</Message>
        <StringContext>
          <BaseString>Cut object(s) found</BaseString>
        </StringContext>
        <Location page="1" minX="-3.126" minY="-2.75" maxX="135.85" maxY="155.322"/>
      </PreflightReportItem>
    </Warnings>

You can then calculate the height and width:

width=[Switch.Calculation:Expression="[Metadata.Rational:Dataset="Log",Model="XML",Path="/EnfocusReport/PreflightReport/Warnings/PreflightReportItem/Location/@maxX",Precision="2"]-([Metadata.Rational:Dataset="Log",Model="XML",Path="/EnfocusReport/PreflightReport/Warnings/PreflightReportItem/Location/@minX",Precision="2"])"]

height=[Switch.Calculation:Expression="[Metadata.Rational:Dataset="Log",Model="XML",Path="/EnfocusReport/PreflightReport/Warnings/PreflightReportItem/Location/@maxY",Precision="2"]-([Metadata.Rational:Dataset="Log",Model="XML",Path="/EnfocusReport/PreflightReport/Warnings/PreflightReportItem/Location/@minY",Precision="2"])"]

[paul_barker]

Hi

I am also trying to achieve this, but in a lot of cases there are multiple cutter elements on a page which are all reported separately in the log like this
</StringContext>
<Location page="1" minX="101.19" minY="244.537" maxX="101.728" maxY="353.566"/>
<Location page="1" minX="101.192" minY="83.542" maxX="201.633" maxY="228.983"/>
<Location page="1" minX="212.384" minY="83.539" maxX="295.302" maxY="84.317"/>
<Location page="1" minX="101.189" minY="493.14" maxX="201.632" maxY="639.146"/>
<Location page="1" minX="101.19" minY="369.121" maxX="101.728" maxY="477.585"/>

What I need is the overall size of all the selected cutter elements. Is there a way to do this?

[tdeschampsBluewest]

Hi,
You can use the selection to set up a box, like art box (likely the one you rarely use), then report the width and height of this boxe.

[paul_barker]

Thanks tdeschampsBluewest that works perfectly.