I am fairly new to sheetcam and I have been trying to find out how to setup and use drilling or centre punch operations.
Couldn't find much doing searches, so I am asking here if someone can give me guidelines please.
I don't know how to setup a centre punch tool, my machine is a low amperage unit but cuts nicely, I am only using it to cut 3mm MS plate, but I need to drill some holes that require tapping, so a twist drill would be needed. The plasma should be able to mark where the holes should go.
Thanks
Setup and use plasma centre punch
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Re: Setup and use plasma centre punch
Thanks Rob, that explains it all very nicely.
Will play a few times to let it sink in and give it a go, looks like it should be simple enough.
Will play a few times to let it sink in and give it a go, looks like it should be simple enough.
Re: Setup and use plasma centre punch
Looked simple enough, but when trying it out I came to a problem.
I thought I followed everything as shown in the video, but when testing it out found that "no holes were found" message came up "check min holes size and max hole size"
Maybe I have done something wrong somewhere?
The drawing I have a pair of holes that are about 8mm in diameter and they show as a yellow circle with a blue cross in the centre when viewed in sheetcam. I have selected these holes and placed them on their own layer for centre punching. I have made the centre punch tool and when I have gone through the operation a warning triangle appears with the above message showing.
The only difference I noticed from the video was that the yellow circles were not showing in the video, just blue crosses.
What have I missed?
I thought I followed everything as shown in the video, but when testing it out found that "no holes were found" message came up "check min holes size and max hole size"
Maybe I have done something wrong somewhere?
The drawing I have a pair of holes that are about 8mm in diameter and they show as a yellow circle with a blue cross in the centre when viewed in sheetcam. I have selected these holes and placed them on their own layer for centre punching. I have made the centre punch tool and when I have gone through the operation a warning triangle appears with the above message showing.
The only difference I noticed from the video was that the yellow circles were not showing in the video, just blue crosses.
What have I missed?
Re: Setup and use plasma centre punch
Check your minimum and maximum hole size in your drilling operation dialog box. The hole you are trying to mark the center of needs to be sized between those 2 dimensions.
Re: Setup and use plasma centre punch
That worked, thanks.
The holes are 8mm, so I made the max holes size as 9mm and then it worked fine.