What is Plasmac?

phillc54 wrote: Tom,

My total experience is 4 or 5 hand cuts about 100mm long...

But I am having fun and that is the main thing (well it is for me anyhow)

Cheers, Phill.

Sounds about how much experience I had when I started building my table. All because I had some spare stepper controllers and I saw an ad on eBay for a used CandCNC thc. THC's and plasmas kind agot me intruiged. 3 plasma cutters later and many thousanfd of dollars and hours, it is all but done thanks to plasmac and Phill

What's one got's to do do get plasmac?

1, Install linux Mint 19.1,
2. follow gnipsel (JT) install and compile of RT uspace Linux Mint 19.1
3. git Plasmac
4. Read through phils life plasmac thread and do.

?

That about it?


/Edit forgot #5. Get lost in life and times of Philc54 Plasmac world never to make it out.

Thats about it. Its all on the first post of Phill's thread and also in the read me files in GIT

I wrote a how to here when I installed it on my machine
forum.linuxcnc.org/plasma-laser/36410-co...fig-for-any-hardware

but things have changed a bit because Phill has now got a configurator

If you use Sheetcam, I've shared a working post processor and Phill has a python script included that reads the Sheetcam toolset and imports it into the Plasmac GUI.

Phill,
I am grateful for all your work, also for Icelander and Rod in helping you, and while doing that proving to the world what Linuxcnc can really do. I am really sorry for not helping much, but life has a way of messing plans up, luckily I am working out the issues and soon I can join.
It has been and still is a hell of a ride fiddling with Linuxcnc and bending it to our needs, no matter how complicated or iracional or strange they might be, and that my friend is something that 95% of humanity dies without feeling the joy of.
On to read the rest of new posts here and get some sleep, it is 2:52AM here.
With utmost respect,
Tom.

Tom,
Thank you, it was the toma config you got woking that was the inspiration for this so you have helped a lot already.

Cheers, Phill.

Thanks you guys a ton. It is really nice what you guys are creating. Great work....
Will be nice if I can ever get there...lol

bevins wrote: What's one got's to do do get plasmac?

1, Install linux Mint 19.1,
2. follow gnipsel (JT) install and compile of RT uspace Linux Mint 19.1
3. git Plasmac
4. Read through phils life plasmac thread and do.

?

That about it?


/Edit forgot #5. Get lost in life and times of Philc54 Plasmac world never to make it out.

I'd like to add that you can install a distro with the preempt kernel already compiled and installed from the LinuxCNC downloads.

www.linuxcnc.org/testing-stretch-rtpreempt/

The complete Plasmac System working catalogue docsbay.net/plasmac-system-catalogue may help you to learn it entirely.

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agree beond the 3rd Plasma table build things getting easer
plasmac is a great gift to peole that start to build controlles