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
It’s 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