Page 1 of 1

Touch off prior to each pierce

Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 6:46 am
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?

Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 7:18 am
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 :)

Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 10:53 am
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.