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vre wrote:

Is there any other cam software for tangential knife except sheetcam ?

 

FreeCAD (?) (wiki.freecad.org/CAM_DressupDragKnife)
CamBam (www.atelier-des-fougeres.fr/Cambam/Aide/Plugins/DragKnife.html)
RhinoCAM (mecsoft.com/OnLineHelp/RhinoCAM%202023/i...s-knife-cutting.html)

Ok let me compare that with my machine as I am using also two parallel ports.
I will get back to you next week when I have been been at my workshop.

you marked out one too many tool change lines in the hal.

 

Okay, I think I didn't explain myself in my first post. When I said "install," I meant exactly that: using the SIM files on a machine already configured with Axis.

The problem I was having was with the PostGui file, and I already solved it. I had to comment out one more line.

Now it starts up perfectly, but I can't change tools; the Probe Basic tool changer window doesn't appear.
If I use the Axis tool changer window, it switches perfectly.

I'm running linuxcnc 2.9.4 (which I downloaded from Debian 12 Bookworm PREEMPT-RT ISO ) in VirtualBox in order to try out the various UIs etc. The actual CNC is being driven from a Raspberry Pi. I'm currently running gmoccapy but I'd like to try out the QtDragon UI.

I found some instructions that said I needed to install linuxcnc-uspace-qtvcp but it's not in the debian repo and I didn't want to start adding random sources without knowing what I'm doing. There are also references to modifying .ini files but there are a lot under sim.gmoccapy so it's not clear which one to modify, and in any case, I thought using QtDragon meant not using gmoccapy.