Few questions about sheetcam

Problems and questions
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Hi all, I recently started to try out sheetcam. I was hoping i could use it for my lasercutting application.

  1. Can i use sheetcam to stop/start the laserbeam, turn the laserbeam off between cuts. As it is now it has one contiunues beam from start to finish when i am cutting out a part.

  2. Manipulating start pattern. I have opned a DXF file and for some reasons it has way to many start points (100+).


    Thanks

p.s. if my explanations are not good enough i will repost try to explain better

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  1. Can i use sheetcam to stop/start the laserbeam, turn the laserbeam off between cuts. As it is now it has one contiunues beam from start to finish when i am cutting out a part.

Yes. Use on of the plasma post processors. The ‘Mach3 plasma’ post is probably the best one to try first.

  1. Manipulating start pattern. I have opned a DXF file and for some reasons it has way to many start points (100+).

In SheetCam turn off ‘View->show segment ends’ and turn on ‘View->show path ends’. If you look at your drawing you will probably see quite a number of white dots. If you zoom in on the dots you will probably find that the lines don’t meet up perfectly. You need to fix these in cad. As a quick reference the outlines are colour coded when you load them. Red is outside, yellow is inside and grey indicates the lines are broken.