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Each path. You can change the rotation direction checking the "Anti clockwise" box. Check "Avoid stringer tips" if you want the outline path to hop over the tips of the stringer (and the clamps if clamped). Then you can set the "Str. width" of the stringer (or clamps) and ho height "dZ height". The relative order of these three components can be changed using "Order": stringer path first, then lines, then outline. Or outline path, then lines, then stringer... Cut tail / bottom first The check box "Cut tail first" makes the toolpath start at the tail of the board instead of the nose. The check box "Cut bottom first" must be used if you start the cut by the bottom of the board instead of the deck. Check blank The check box "Check tips before cut" makes cutter touch the tail and nose tips of the board before the cut si you can check the positionning of the blank. The options "Check blank position after upside-down" makes the cutter touche each side of the board before cutting the second side of the board to check the alignment. Starting/End position If the "Starting position" is set to "Auto", the tool path starts 1.25" above the first point of the stringer cut. This can be at the nose, or at the tail if the box "Cut tail first" is checked. If it's not set to auto, you can set it at any position relatively to the tail, nose, center, origin or first point. Note that tail and nose refer to the top corner of the tail and nose of the blank. While center corresponds to the surface of the final board. You can define the "End position" of the toolpath the same way. Margins The "Margins" allow stopping the toolpath before

You use the hyphen without a second number, cut returns everything from the first number to the end of the stream or line. echo 'how-to geek' | cut -b -6 echo 'how-to geek' | cut -b 8- Using cut With Characters Using cut with characters is pretty much the same as using it with bytes. In both cases, special care must be taken with complex characters. By using the -c (character) option, we tell cut to work in terms of characters, not bytes. echo 'how-to geek' | cut -c 1,5,8 echo 'how-to geek' | cut -c 8-11 These work exactly as you'd expect. But take a look at this example. It's a six-letter word, so asking cut to return the characters from one to six should return the entire word. But it doesn't. It's one character short. To see the whole word we have to ask for the characters from one to seven. echo 'piñata' | cut -c 1-6 echo 'piñata' | cut -c 1-7 The issue is the character "ñ" is actually made up out of two bytes. We can see this quite easily. We've got a short text file containing this line of text: cat unicode.txt We'll examine that file with the hexdump utility. Using the -C (canonical) option gives us a table of hexadecimal digits with the ASCII equivalent on the right. In the ASCII table, the "ñ" isn't shown, instead, there are dots representing two non-printable characters. These are the bytes highlighted in the hexadecimal table. hexdump -C unicode.txt These two bytes are used by the displaying program—in this case, the Bash shell—to identify the "ñ." Many Unicode characters use three or more bytes to represent a single character. If we ask for character 3 or character 4 we're shown the symbol for a non-printing character. If we ask for bytes 3 and 4, the shell interprets them as "ñ." echo 'piñata' | cut -c 3 echo 'piñata' | cut -c 4 echo 'piñata' | cut -c 3-4 Using cut With Delimited Data We can ask cut to split lines of text using a specified delimiter. By default, cut uses a tab character but it is easy to tell it to use whatever we want. The fields in the "/etc/passwd" file are separated by colons ":", so we'll use that as our delimiter and extract some text. The portions of text between the delimiters are called fields, and are referenced just like bytes or characters, but they're preceded by the -f (fields) option. You can leave a space between the "f" and the digit, or not. The first command uses the -d (delimiter) option to tell cut to use ":" as the delimiter. It's going to pull the first field out of each line in the "/etc/passwd" file. That'll be a long list so we're using head with the -n (number) option to show the first five responses only. The second command does the same thing but uses tail to show us the last five responses.

Quick Links Using cut With Characters Using cut With Delimited Data Summary The Linux cut command allows you to extract portions of text from files or data streams. Cut can work with bytes, characters, or delimited fields, allowing you to select specific portions of text based on your criteria. Cut can be combined with other utilities like greg to perform more complex operations The Linux cut command lets you extract portions of text from files or data streams. It's especially useful for working with delimited data, such as CSV files. Here's what you need to know. The cut Command The cut command is a veteran of the Unix world, making its debut in 1982 as part of AT&T System III UNIX. Its purpose in life is to snip out sections of text from files or streams, according to the criteria that you set. Its syntax is as simple as its purpose, but it is this joint simplicity that makes it so useful. In the time-honored UNIX way, by combining cut with other utilities such as grep you can create elegant and powerful solutions to challenging problems. While there are different versions of cut, we're going to discuss the standard GNU/Linux version. Be aware that other versions, notably the cut found in BSD variants, don't include all the options described here. You can check which version is installed on your computer by issuing this command: cut --version If you see "GNU coreutils" in the output you're on the version we're going to describe in this article. All versions of cut have some of this functionality, but the Linux version has had enhancements added to it. First Steps With cut Whether we're piping information into cut or using cut to read a file, the commands we use are the same. Anything you can do to a stream of input with cut can be done on a line of text from a file, and vice versa. We can tell cut to work with bytes, characters, or delimited fields. To select a single byte, we use the -b (byte) option and tell cut which byte or bytes we want. In this case, it is byte five. We're sending the string "how-to geek" into the cut command with a pipe, "|", from echo . echo 'how-to geek' | cut -b 5 The fifth byte in that string is "t", so cut responds by printing "t" in the terminal window. To specify a range we use a hyphen. To extract bytes 5 through to—and including—11, we'd issue this command: echo 'how-to geek' | cut -b 5-11 You can supply multiple single bytes or ranges by separating them with commas. To extract byte 5 and byte 11, use this command: echo 'how-to geek' | cut -b 5,11 To get the first letter of each word we can use this command: echo 'how-to geek' | cut -b 1,5,8 If you use the hyphen without a first number, cut returns everything from position 1 up to the number. If

Wind the strings onto the pegs is very important, whether you're using locking, standard or vintage tuning keys. Start by loading all the strings through the bridge and then loading them onto the keys as follows:Locking tuning keys. Picture the headcap of the neck as the face of a clock, with the top being 12:00 and the nut being 6:00. Line the six tuning machines so that the first string keyhole is set at 1:00, the second at 2:00, the third and fourth at 3:00, the fifth at 4:00, and the sixth at 5:00. Pull the strings through tautly and tighten the thumb wheel, locking the string in. Now tune to pitch.Standard keys. To reduce string slippage at the tuning key, we recommend using a tie technique. This is done by pulling the string through the keyhole and then pulling it clockwise underneath and back over itself; creating a knot. You'll need to leave a bit of slack for the first string so you have at least two or three winds around the post. As you progress to the sixth string, you'll reduce the amount of slack and the number of winds around the keys.Vintage keys. For these, you'll want to pre-cut the strings to achieve the proper length and desired amount of winds. Pull the sixth string (tautly, remember) to the fourth key and cut it. Pull the fifth string to the third key and cut it. Pull the fourth string between the second and first keys and cut it. Pull the third string nearly to the top of the headcap and cut it. Pull the second string about a 1/2" (13 mm) past the headcap and cut it. Finally, pull the first string 1 1/2" (38 mm) past the top of the headcap and cut it. Insert into

Cut settings for intricate cuts.I am providing you with a free Silhouette cut file that I suggest you use for your first Silhouette project. This Little Hipster design is available as a free download and it's what I would highly recommend you use to create your first Silhouette project.I think having a solid understanding of these five skills will get you off to a great start with your Silhouette machine. And you should be in good shape now to make your first Silhouette cut. Since I don't want to overwhelm you - or have you blame me for holding you back in cutting - I limited my list to five. However...I actually think there are a total of 10 fundamentals that every Silhouette beginner should know before making their first cut. If you'd like to pretty much guarantee you'll have a perfect first cut, lesson the learning curve even more, and avoid wasting materials - how about I send the rest of the list right to your inbox! Just sign up to get Silhouette School 's email list so you get our blog posts to your email inbox and as a welcome we'll send you 5 MORE Silhouette fundamentals to master now! Yes! Send Me 5 More Beginner Tips NOW!Get five more Silhouette beginner tips right to your inbox right now..and never miss another free Silhouette tutorial from Silhouette School! How to check which version of Silhouette Studio Software you are using Understanding the difference between the Silhouette Cloud and