What's New in Cut2DPro V12.5
Toolpaths
Preview Surface Colour
When previewing your toolpaths you can now specify a separate surface color for the material block, to better visualize colored or laminated surfaces providing a more realistic preview of how your finished piece will look.
Optimized Pocketing for Fewer Retracts
Instead of retracting in between all passes, the toolpath will proceed to the next pass depth where it can leading to smoother, faster pocketing operations with reduced tool retracts, minimizing machine wear and cutting time.
Acceleration-Aware Time Estimation
Get more precise machining time estimates that factor in your machine's actual acceleration characteristics, helping you plan production more accurately.
Transfer toolpaths between sheets
Easily relocate toolpaths between sheets or sides with a simple right-click, speeding up your workflow when managing complex projects.
Laser Sketch Engraving
Extend your creative possibilities by applying sketch carving techniques with laser tools for detailed surface treatments.
Visual Toolpath Status
Quickly identify which toolpaths need calculation with clear visual indicators in the toolpath tree, helping you avoid overlooking necessary processing steps.
Sheet Specific Toolpaths
Keep your project more organized with toolpath groups that stay connected to their associated sheets, reducing confusion and errors.
Tool inclusive naming
Identify toolpaths more easily with automatic inclusion of tool names in multi-tool operations, reducing confusion when managing complex projects.
Peck Drilling Visualization
See exactly how peck drilling operations will execute in simulation, giving you better insight into this specialized drilling technique.
Design
Vector editing in the 3D View
Following on from the integration of the drawing tools into the 3D view within V12, this is now further enhanced with the ability to access the full suite of vector node editing tools. Anything that could previously be done within the 2D view now can be done with greater efficiency within the single view. Perform node and span edits, apply mirror functions, and adjust line lengths with direct input. Add fillets, trim geometry, and extend vectors without switching views, enabling faster, more intuitive design adjustments.
The software's drawing tools are now available in the 3D view. This allows you to use the 3D view lots of operations.
It is useful for those occasions where you want to be able to stay within the 3D view rather than having to switch back and forth between the different views for different operations.
Text creation in the 3D View
As well as drawing your vectors within the 3D view, it is now also possible to place, arrange and rotate text objects without having to switch back to the 2D view
Fillet tool in 3D view
Create radiused corner fillets for design and function in the 3D view, eliminating the need to switch between views.
Trim tool in 3D view
Perform trim operations directly in 3D without switching views, maintaining your creative momentum while making precise cuts.
Edit Dimension objects
Dynamically edit all dimension types by dragging control points to adjust properties like anchor points, offsets, caption size, text, and position. Resizing a dimension with its part automatically updates values, ensuring accuracy as your design evolves.
Smart part selection
Select all vectors internal to a selected boundary using the right click context menu in both 2D and 3D view. Save time with intelligent part detection that allows you to select complete parts without requiring manual grouping first.
Duplicate Sheet with all contents
Create identical copies of sheets—complete with vectors, models, and toolpaths—with a simple menu command, saving time when working with variations.
Quick Node Editing with Shapes
Switch between shape tools and node editing seamlessly, maintaining your creative flow while making precise adjustments.
Flexible Nesting Options
Maintain better project organization by nesting parts directly on your chosen sheet instead of creating new ones automatically.
Polyline Enhancements
With the polyline tool, use the directional arrow keys to cycle through modes - length, length + angle, absolute XY, and relative XY - allowing precise node placement directly in the 3D view without form options.
Enhanced Plate Production
Organize your plate production more effectively by optionally creating each plate on its own sheet for better management and output.
WebP Support
The increasingly popular .webp image format, known for its smaller file sizes while preserving high quality, is now supported for bitmap import in this release.
Color preserving Bitmap Fading
View faded bitmaps with their original color integrity maintained, giving you better visual reference while working on your design.
Interface
Snap Grid and Guide lines in 3D view
Keep your alignments consistent across 2D and 3D with both the snapping grid and customizable guide lines that help to ensure precise positioning. As well as these now being visible within the 3D view, you can set a custom colour and thickness to aid visibility.
Re-sizeable Interface Elements
Customize your interface to better match your workflow by resizing dropdown menus to show more items at once.
Layers
Duplicate Layers
A new duplicate option in the right-click menu lets you easily copy layers and their objects, streamlining design experimentation while preserving the original layer and its content.
Drag and Drop Layer Management
Organize your project more intuitively by simply dragging layers into your preferred order.
Layer Filtering
Clean up your workspace by hiding empty layers, making it easier to focus on the layers that contain actual content.