Gmoccapy - A new screen for linuxcnc

Thanks Chris,

I will now enjoy my holidays.

Norbert

Hereafter attched are files in Serbian.

Halo Dejan,

the translation has been added and pushed.

Norbert

@All,

is there a need to get gmoccapy to control also plasma cutters?

I did some work on that, but I do not now exactly how that should work, so I would need help in making an sim plasma cutter.
I tried to copy part of plasma-thc-sim, but I did not get it to work.

So, should I invest some more time, or isn't there a need for plasma cutters?

See the screenshot for a first layout.
Replacing the tool Info frame and the spindle and coolant frames is allready possible with custom glade files, but not jet documented.

Norbert

Hi Norbert
Hope you had a nice holiday.
YES YES YES please. I had just started to look at that as I do lots of plasma machines. I have just finished developing a THC controller that has the following pins: Most of the THC controllers on the market has the same but not all has the ARC VOLTAGE feedback. The THCAD form Mesa does have feedback.

THC SET VOLTS -> PWM signal from LCNC
ARC VOLTS <- analog signal that I read with a SPI type component
ARC OK <- once the plasma has established the pilot arc and ready to move
TORCH UP <- tell the component to pick up the Z axis
TORCH DOWN <- tell the component to drop the Z axis

There is also a THC RATE which is s percentage of the maximum feed rate. When you are in run mode you dont have the luxury of acceleration settings so you must make sure that the Z axis acceleration during THC control does not cause the motor to slip.

There are more things that we could discuss. I will assist if you want.

With regard to the simulator, that is going to be very hard as you dont have the actual plasma functions.

EDIT: - Norbert something I am missing on your picture is the plasma cut height. One has to set cut height, pierce height and travel height.

yes Norbert Plasma screen would be good .