15m Industrial Plasma Cutter

I would report issues with Plasmac on this thread
forum.linuxcnc.org/plasma-laser/35449-an...component?start=1440
I thought I saw the guys discussing some of your issues in the last day or so so it may have been fixed by now but not in the packaged version yet.

Because Plasmac has only recently been added to the distribution versions, a lot of users compile LinuxCNC from source as we had to to get it installed. That means we can update as soon as updates have been pushed to master branch.

Thanks for that, I'll have a read.

I think I have fixed my issue, made my own G-code converter. Seems to work.

I think the latest update will fix your issues.

If not could you post the gcode that is causing any problems.

Edit: could you also post the error that it produces.

Hi Phill,

I have made my own G-code conversion tool that seems to be working so far (converting files from inkscape).
All it does is remove the movement Z commands and adds "M3 S1" before the first movement block. Is this too simplistic and should I go about getting the update? I notice for example that THC velocity lock is always on, however the files now load into plasmac and the simulation runs.

Thanks.

You do not need that, there is a plasma tool in Inkscape already, in the gcodetools menu under tools choose plasma. For comfortable use it has to be modified a bit to remove some stuff that is there for probing, but that can also be removed during editing of the drawing.
Here is a quick video with no commentary on how to output gcode for Linuxcnc.

Jarman wrote: Hi Phill,

I have made my own G-code conversion tool that seems to be working so far (converting files from inkscape).
All it does is remove the movement Z commands and adds "M3 S1" before the first movement block. Is this too simplistic and should I go about getting the update? I notice for example that THC velocity lock is always on, however the files now load into plasmac and the simulation runs.

Thanks.

Whatever works for you is good, I would like to find out why the PlasmaC GCode parser is not working for your GCode.