Say I have 1000 cuts to make with my plasma, and I want to have a minute pause after 100 cut sequence ( to cool down the plasma cutter ) and then continue the next 100 cut , pause again etc…
how to modify the post processor so the pause processing can be automatically set ? thank you
What post are you using? Some posts such as the Mach3 plasma pauses post already do this.
Hi Les,
I use MP3000 post.
Yes it has G04 pause function, but I want to have it automatically paused after 100 cut ( before 101st pierce )
manually i can do it , but is time consuming reading every line of gcode 
Counting pierces isn’t very accurate. You also need to worry about the length of each cut. To add to the confusion, ambient temperature will also have an effect. Rather than modifying the post you may be better off using code snippets.
First create a code snippet. Click on the ‘G’ tool button. Give the snippet a name such as ‘pause’. In the box below enter:
M00
Now you have created the snippet, switch to start point mode. Pick a start point where you want to pause. Right click on the start point and select ‘properties’. In the ‘use code snippet’ dropdown select your ‘pause’ snippet. When you run the post processor SheetCam will now inset M00 just before it pierces that start point.
Thanks Les,
This is exactly what I needed