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Also, looks like the .deb is reporting its version as 1.0, which is maybe why people are getting prompted to "upgrade" to version 6. $ apt-cache show sheetcamtng Package: sheetcamtng Status: install ok unpacked Maintainer: Les Newell <les@sheetcam.com> Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.0 Depe...

Thanks for supporting linux. I tried the .deb on the Downloads page SheetCamTNG_7.1.20-1_amd64.deb and had no luck with Ubuntu 16.04 due to lack of libreadline7. Then I upgraded to 20.04 and it has readline8 but not 7, so it fails too. But looks like Ubuntu 18.04 would have worked. Also tried SheetC...

Huh, okay, looks like the default LinuxCNC.scpost doesn't have an OnPenDown(), so that's why I wasn't seeing M03 in the generated code when using that post, and looks like the other variants do have that and conditionally send it based on tool type, which is what I wanted.

Thanks Les. Maybe setting it back to nil at the end of a post run and a mentioning in the toolClass post docs about when it gets set would help future head-scratchers. More generally, I'm trying to get linuxcnc not to turn on the torch when I'm running a toolpath for the (unpowered spring) scribe. I...

Linux 6.1.57. toolClass appears not to be getting set until after the post runs. Created the attached minimal post to demonstrate. I've got a job with three operations: two using a plasma tool and one using a plate marker. First I ran the plate marker operation, and you can see that the toolClass sh...