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I emailed you an evaluation license.

If you install the development version of SheetCam you can give it a try. I would welcome any feedback.

After watching your video I think I understand what is going on. That CommandCNC post tries to detect if you are using the parking option in SheetCam. If it thinks you are not using parking it automatically moves to 0,0. As you have found it can sometimes do odd things. Updating to the latest versio...

It could be that you are using a different post processor on your other computer. Some posts always return to 0,0.

That sounds like a license issue. In SheetCam go to Help->about. Does it show your name?
Try reinstalling the license. If you don't have a copy send me an email and I'll get a copy sent off to you.

I had a look at the support file you sent me and you need to enable parking. In SheetCam go to Options>job options->Parking and turn on 'Use X' and 'Use Y'. It will then move back to 0,0 (or whatever coordinates you enter) at the end of the job.

I misunderstood what you were asking. All you have to do is move your part so it's center is over 0,0. The machine and work dimensions are only shown on the screen for your convenience. They don't affect the g-code. On my milling machine I usually just ignore them because my zero point varies depend...

There is no way for SheetCam to know where the tool will be at the start of cutting so it assumes the cutter is at 0,0 when displaying the tool paths. When you run the code on your machine the cutter will move from it's current position to the first start point. It won't move to 0,0 first.

I have always avoided adding CAD functionality to SheetCam. Writing a decent CAD program is a major task and I simply don't have the resources to do both CAD and CAM. For measuring, right-click and select 'Measure'. You can now click on one point then move your mouse to the other point you want to m...

If you intend to just use SheetCam to generate files to run your machine I'd recommend switching the Burny controller to use G-code (word mode). If you must use ESSI could you ask the people that supplied the machine for an example ESSI file that runs correctly. The problem is that there are differe...

I just had a look at your post and it is missing the material surface offset when probing. I'm not sure if this is just a very old version of the post or if you took out the offsets. I have attached the latest version which should work. The problem you are seeing is because Z0 is the centre line of ...

Just to confirm, it is fixed at 45 degrees.

Nice bit of detective work! Thanks for posting your findings here.

Give this version of the post a try. It had a lot of spindle stuff that was not needed. I'm not sure why it was left in there.

Heh. Yeah, no shortage of projects.