Sheet Cam to a Dynatorch Controller

Problems and questions
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My Buddy’s Dynatorch machine is working 100% now. I’m going to give SheetCam a try so it will be easier for them to go from dxf to a cut file.

I was hoping you’d know some of the ins and outs of the two working together. (Dynatorch & Sheet CAM)

Use the “Dynatorch” post processor so it will post the feed rate only once.

Use 100 IPM for the feed rate it sheetcam as the default on tools so the dynatorch controller can control feed rate as usual.

SheetCAM will control the tool offsets & kerf so the dynatorch software will have 0.0 offset in the tool library for the kerf. Hopefully no conflicts there.

I guess all other specifications in SheetCam tools should be set to zero?

pierce delay, pierce height, plunge rate, cut height and pause.

I would think that the dynatorch software would control all the above. Correct?

I couldn’t get any feedback on people using SheetCAM and dynatorch on CNC-Zone. No one wanted to talk about it…

Any hints would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Aj

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I guess I didn’t ask the questions right, but today I got the dynatorch machine working great with SheetCAM.

Really one of the easiest things I’ve done.

I used the “dynatorch” post processor in SheetCAM.

The only thing I specified in setting up new tools was the tool compensation in sheetcam. I named the tools after the amperage for the consumables used.

Zeros were used in feed rate, pierce delay, pierce height, plung rate, cut height and the pause at end of cut.

The dynatorch controller and tool library was used as usual except I entered zero for kerf compensation on the tools.

Kerf compensation was the only thing changed in there.

Worked like a champ.

Thanks again Less. I’m going to purchase the SheetCAM program for my buddy at Dales Welding and fab.

AJ