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Is there any information on which pins on 7i76 board are the pwm generators mapped onto? For instance, TB2 connector on 7i76 had GND, Step0-, step0+, Dir0-, Dir0+ and +5Vp with default stepgen firmware.
I couldn't find which pin to connect.

I'm sorry if my previous post was hard to understand or based on misread info. 

I was under the assumption that the most affordable mesa card for 6 axis (5 move and 1 extr) was around 200 bucks. But you are totally right better to ask than assume... I'm sorry for sounding stupid.

I'm still very much open to guidance for hardware selection for my 5 axis printer

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Hello. I started making my own GUI little by little. When creating a Stacked Widget, I add buttons to switch between pages. I did it according to the instructions: added PushButton->added Dynamic Property->Name: change_page - stackedWidget Index-1. I press Ctrl R and nothing happens.
 
 When you click on the button to go to another page, nothing happens in preview mode (Ctrl+R). And if I launch the GUI via lcnc, then when I press the button I get an error:

If it is just for testing, you can just set up the network interface in the virtual machine.

You can add me on discord, my username is onceloved.cn I can use TeamViewer to remotely configure for you

My graph in the plasma primer in the linuxcnc docs is the only real data I have seen about volts over distance.
linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/plasma/plasma-cnc-primer.html
It showed for the specific machine, it was 7.53 volts per mm with 99.4% confidence over 16000 readings. So a 2 volt range is a good target to get your 0.01" which is realistic
You voltage will be around 130-150 volts when cutting. I have run a 300 v full scale and also 170 to 200v an I never saw any difference. I would just use your thcad 300, seeing you have it, set it to 1/32 frequency and make some parts.

I tried to draw a picture to ilustrate the issue with the 2D clothoids stacked on each other to approximate a 3D clothoid.We want to connect a straight line in y with another line in x. The second one isI tried to draw a picture to ilustrate the issue with the 2D clothoids stacked on each other to approximate a 3D clothoid.We want to connect a straight line in y with another line in x. The second one is also shifted up in z. The 1) picture shows a 3D drawing of the situation. Pictures 2) and 3) show the xy and xz planes respectively with how the 2D clothoids would look like respectively.

 

The 2 clothoids look fine by themself, the one in xy is also close to the correct one I guess. The issue is with the second one in xz. The clothoid optimizes curvature in this xz projection so you get linear increasing and decreasing curvature relative to arc length in this projection but not linear in total 3D  arc length. In this example the difference is quite extreme because the curve is initially moving mainly in y and not in x. So the resulting curve does not behave as expected. Picture 4) shows the resulting curve in the yz plane, the tool is barely moving in z for quite some time (because the machine is mostly using in y and this direction got ignored for the clothoid calculation. Then it suddenly needs to move quite a lot in z and jerk is much higher than expected from the xz clothoid.
I hope I managed to explain this, it’s kind of hard to visualize 3D clothoids.

So in summary this approach leads to a smooth curve with fitting curvatures at the ends but in between the change in curvature and torsion is not linear and jerk might be higher than expected. The resulting connection curve also dependens on the orientation in the coordinate system. If the example was rotated for example by 45° the resulting clothoids would look differntly. This is of course kind of unintuitive.
So it does work to some extend but is not the best solution and there might be more extreme edge cases where this might  go wrong.