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I would suggest as you have a crossfire table (manual z-axis) that you increase for pierce height (try doubling it), and lower your pierce delay to zero. The problem is, mach3 can be slow to fire and extinguish the torch + as you don't have a controlled Z-axis, you have to set the height manually, y...

what is your kerf set at within the tool you are using? Inside offset, offsets the cut to the inside of the shape (hence any lead in will be on the inside) and the offset is 1/2 the kerf width (if your application is plasma) or 1/2 the tool width if your tool is a milling tool. Ouside offsets, offse...

bit of explanation on the options from the Sheetcam help file (tap F1 when in the screen and it should pop up with the explanations {thanks Les})

I got a new laptop 3 months ago with latest version of Windows 10...ever since, my gcode has been off. The torch visibly pauses several times throughout the cut, the cuts are choppy and my corners are all rounded does Mach3 run on the new laptop? how are you running mach3? (parallel port, smooth st...

post.SetOptions(post.ARC_SEGMENTS)

Les is overcut the same as a dogbone?

I've got to ask... acoutjester, what do you mean by Vcarve vcarving needs a v shaped tool so that you pocket out in a v shape https://youtu.be/z-PjzJLlW0U inlays are a different animal and not vcarving. the problem I suspect (although never used the software) is vectric has a piece of software calle...

I use "overkill" in autocad to remove duplicate lines, it normally clears most of my copy and paste errors

Les, not had any crashes. I've only run them on my laptop not the machine outside yet.... but that should not have any problems (i7, 8gb, ssd)

I noticed any shapes with more than 9 sides ended up a circle....

Yes Les, of course, not a problem. I'll just keep trying to add a few as there are different ways to input the same shape (eg, Triangle, could be an equilateral with just a height and width {which is what shape I'd done), but it could be a right angle with just a height and width.... or it could be ...

Inscribed Shapes / Circumscribed Shapes: (3sided)Triangle (4sided)Square (5sided)Pentagon (6sided)Hexagon (7sided)Heptagon (8sided)Octogon (9sided)Nonogon main.lua Interesting question / bug? AddChoiceControl("inOutShape", "Shape Location", {"Inscribed","Circumscri...

Les, That works great 2019-08-30 21_04_03-SheetCam TNG Development - Untitled.png Bit of a suggestion :) {some people are never happy.... haha} When you first select the shape and it appears on the screen, it may be useful (for asthetics .... no other reason) for the shape (icon.png) to appear in th...

thanks Les very much, I'll have a play tonight / weekend

with mach3 or uccnc you can use m10/M11

with mach4 or Linuxcnc you can use m62/m63

these are the mcodes that run in sync with motion.

these codes won't help you out with that controller

some m codes are (or could be ) synchronous most mcodes are not synchronous the above will probably mean nothing to you (it took me a little while to understand when I first started out) it means that most mcodes require the machine to slow down before the mcode is activated.... this means that you ...