Hello. I would like to know if anyone here has used SheetCAM successfully, for an Eastwood CNC Plasma Cutting Table? The manufacturer suggests Fusion 360 however, I am not a fan of that s-ware at all. Thank you.
here is a link to a sheetcam post processor I received from Eastwood customer support last Fall - https://www.eastwood.com/images/library/55132-Eastwood-Elite-CNC-Plasma-SheetCAM-Post-Processor.zip
Itās a pretty simple pp, but take note that it uses G41 left cutter compensation in OnPenDown(); that can bite you if the compensation is set to anything other than zero at the console. Sheetcam handles kerf offset just fine as it builds the toolpath per tool and operation definitions, so there should be no need for G41 in the pp.
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Hello, I am currently using SheetCam and the Eastwood versa cut 4x4 table. I had some issues in the beginning but found out it was the thumb drive I was using. Eastwood tells you that you can not use a drive over 16GB and it has to be formatted with FAT or FAT32 but that was actually the issue. I tried a 128GB unformatted thumb drive and was able to see all of the files and it working great since. Now I am on the learning curve of all the features of the software but so far everything is working.
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@ccoldewey , great news, thanks for sharing !
re. learning curve with sheetcam, be sure to see this forum thread- Where to learn Sheetcam
Thank you for the reply. I did download that but in Sheetcam it appeared to have issues?
Did you have any issues using the post processor from the Eastwood site? Thanks
This is what I get when I try to use this post processor
Lua: Syntax error during pre-compilation
ā¦\SheetCam TNG\posts._Eastwood CNC Plasma Post Processor SheetCAM.scpost:1: unexpected symbol
@ceilingwalker , Something is not right about that message, but perhaps you typed it with some mistakes. The post processor name is: ā55132 Eastwood Elite CNC Plasma SheetCAM Post Processor.scpostā and it should not produce syntax errors when loaded after being expanded (unpacked) from the zip file.
Here is a copy of it ready to import into sheetcam via menu Options-Machine-āPost Processorā, using the āImport postā button on the bottom of the window.
55132 Eastwood Elite CNC Plasma SheetCAM Post Processor.scpost (2.0 KB)
If you continue to get any error after importing this pp and running it, please prepare and send us a support.zip file as instructed here- Creating a Sheetcam Customer Support file
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It appears happy with that one. I think I might have been importing it incorrectly. ID10T error. Thank you
Hello ccoldewey. I have saved my .tap file from sheetcam to my thumbdrive but at the Eastwood Control it doesnāt see the file. It sees the other folders on the drive but not my plasma cut project.
Save the file as a cnc, not a tap. I had the sa.e issue until I saved them as a cnc file. Make sure there are no errors showing prior to creating the cut file. Also check the file size post creation, if it only a couple kb in size it didnāt save correctly. Let me know of that helps.
That did it! Thank you.