sheetcam.com

Its a plugin you buy for sheetcam, the rotary axis is treated as a linear axis so that it does not work in degrees but units (mm / inches)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-BuRLhfLvk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2fscbLNtGU

I struggled on the orientation on mine and rotated the camera 180 degrees and it worked for me (I'm guessing it's the mirror reflection of the image.... right appearing on the left and left appearing on the right maybe)

An add-on you buy as an extra licence key

is it possible to use a variable (say toolDia ) in the as the "distance" for a "before end" rule

Any way to expose these variables to the path rules?

is toolDia the same variable as kerf width for a jet tool?

thanks

can you post your gcode?

sounds like your issue is M3 and M5 not being seen by GRBL (you may need to change the post processor so that it issues whatever GRBL needs to see to turn the torch on and off)

https://github.com/grbl/grbl/issues/1568

never mind..... answered my own question..... (look before type!)

I noticed under Plugins there was a Plasma Tool lurking

How would one go about adding to it by way of the other material thicknesses etc?

(it needs a dropdown for the thickness and maybe a list for metric and imperial from the cut charts)

Thanks

Rob

How about posting an SVG and the output gcode?

Is it an absolute and incremental co-ordinates issue?

...... I don't know if Centroid have a facility for directly controlling the machine movement. UCCNC now has an API installed with the software that allows you to directly control machine movement without a licence but only with UC motion controllers. API is in c# or VB via .net (I believe..... Not...

No, the link works fine.... the problem is you cannot read the link unless you are a registered user on the CandCNC forum (screenshot below).

The candcnc forum is a closed forum
.... Cannot read anything on there unless registered.....

How about a copy and paste? From there to here?

Mirror / flip one of the axis?

N0150 M03 N0400 M05 N0480 M03 N0730 M05 N0810 M03 N0980 M05 N1060 M03 N1410 M05 N1490 M03 N1660 M05 N1740 M03 <><><> Line #180 around here..... N1840 M05 N1920 M03 N2070 M05 N2150 M03 N2280 M05 N2360 M03 N2550 M05 ... gcode seems to be calling the torch to fire + extinguish as required many times......