15m Industrial Plasma Cutter

Thanks for clarifying Phill, that makes sense.
I ran man plasmac and got:

VERSION 0.66 - 19 Aug 2019

It also says "PLASMAC(9)" at the top but I don't know if that is version related.

When was your last update?

It was this morning at about 9am (UK) time, 3.5 hours ago. I have been away and not using the computer since the 13/08/19 so I think when I updated this morning it updated to that version (ie. It did successfully update). Am I missing a version?

Do you have a line in your machine HAL file beginning with loadrt [EMCMOT]EMCMOT and does it have num_spindles=2 at the end.

I'm not entirely sure what is meant by machine HAL.
I have the file "plasmac.hal"

located: /usr/share/doc/linuxcnc/examples/sample-configs/by_machine/plasmac/plasmac.hal

Is this what you mean?


This file has the line:

"loadrt plasmac"

however I can't see a reference to the number of spindles. I have attached the file so you can see what I'm looking at.
Thanks.

Try this file instead of the one you have. Based on my experience today I would expect this to work. All I've done is comment out a pin you don't need as you don't have an engraver. as I mentioned earlier in this thread.


EDIT: rename it to plasmac.hal