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I don't do mill work, but in plasma cutting you can select the order of the start points. Right click on the material area and select Quick Cut Sequence and select the order you want the different areas cut.

On the operations, you can right click in the list and copy them to the different parts.

Well, for some reason it works fine for me. Just cut some more 1/2" tonight using nothing but the ramp pierce. Maybe my post processor is set up differently, I don't know. But it cuts wonderfully and never hits the slag pile. DTHC turns on and follows the cut height without missing a beat.

A ramp pierce moves the torch away from the slag pile as well as allowing piercing thicker than rated material. And you don't have to change consumables.

I don't believe so. You can download the free version of DraftSight and change the hole sizes pretty easily.

Yesterday both versions crashed for me when I opened an old job. I think the cut rules were different and it crashed I tried to copy the file rules into the toolset. It asked about the report but I don't have internet on that computer so I didn't submit it. Guess I should find a way to send that to ...

I didn't know that. The dev version seems to be crashing and doing strange things for me. I went back to the stable version. Guess I'll have to try again. Seems like it is more robust.

Title says it all. When manually ordering the parts rather than dragging the name of the part in a list, it would be nice to just click on the parts on the sheet in the desired cutting order. Going through the list is cumbersome if you have a lot of duplicates. It is difficult to tell which part is ...

I know I asked this before, but I ran into it again yesterday. Shouldn't the lead in settings be in the tool settings, since the lead in is usually based on the material thickness. My situation was with my scribe. I have to turn off the leads when I scribe but then remember to turn them back on when...

I tried this question over on PlasmaSpider, without much success. http://plasmaspider.com/viewtopic.php?f=103&t=24947 I guess technically it's kind of a sheetcam question, so let's have a go over here. Setting up a rotary on my table. I have a 4 jaw chuck. With my zero switch, am I correct that ...

Follow Les' instructions.

Look at the Post documentation in SheetCam. Options, Machine Options, Post Documentation (toward the bottom of the window above the OK button)
It should output all the moves if you change ModalNumber to Number and ModalText to Text. The modal word omits moves that are the same as the previous move.

Yeah, I remember that now.
I was also wondering if I needed to include the offX, offY, and offZ in the calculation somewhere, but I ran the post with a scribe tool and didn't get any extra G01's showing up so I must not need to.

Well, I thought about it some more and did some testing and it was as you stated, a rounding issue. The test you proposed was comparing the unrounded values. I figured I needed to check the rounded values since that is what is being output. So here's what I came up with and it seems to have taken ca...

Gotcha. Rounding issues. How about I just don't worry about the extra lines of code.
Thanks.

Go into your Windows color settings and change the "selected highlight" color to something different. Mine is blue. Not sure what version of Windows you are using, but you should be able to locate it. Usually under the right click menu from the desktop.