Touch off prior to each pierce

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larrydivesdry
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Touch off prior to each pierce

Post by larrydivesdry »

I recently installed Sheetcam to generate code for Mach3 and plasma. I selected the Mach3 with scribber post processor. The gcode generated is perfect except it touches off prior to the first pierce only. Is there a way to edit this post processor to allow touch off prior to each pierce or is there another post processor bundled with Sheetcam that will do this?
Pakko
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Post by Pakko »

I think there is a pre set value of the distance between each touch off in the post. In my post it was 500mm. So I changed it to 10mm :)
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Les Newell
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Post by Les Newell »

To save time the post doesn't always touch off if it is starting a new cut close to the previous start. If you change the refDistance value to 0 this won't happen.
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