NativeCAM features request

Hi Fern,
I'm using NativeCAM every day, mostly to transform, mix and manipulate my gcode, and as project organizer-management tool, unfortunately I still can't do all my gcode files without "windowscadcam" for this reason I opened this post, to organize the ideas about the features and improvements that I would like to see on NativeCAM to make from it my primary CAM.

F-engrave is installed along LinuxCNC, can I suggest a feature to make V-Carving and V-Inlay like the F-engrave program does? These are very used processes, besides with F-engrave it is possible to import .dxf and bitmaps to engrave.
github.com/stephenhouser/f-engrave

With G-code ripper is possible Scale, Split and Wrap G-Code even on irregular surfaces using the autoprobe function.
www.scorchworks.com/Gcoderipper/gcoderipper.html

For what I understand these two programs are python scripts, maybe it would be possible to use NativeCam as frontend as done before with ttrace to engraving text...

Thanks a lot for your great work and please, keep my dream alive
Cheers
Floris

Hi Floris

I do not know those apps...
I will have to take a good look at them and put on my enhancement list if possible for later development

Fern

Hi Floris,

I was out of country a good while for the last 6 months and I could not work much on the project. Next version will be 2.0

Not much improvements in the interface but much better g-code.

Meanwhile, if you have new requests please post them

Regards
Fern

Hi all. I finally got a plasma table working with Tommylight's latest config (2.8pre stepper version), and also NativeCam installed on the same machine with the plasma catalog installed.

My problem is that the plasma won't run gcode generated by ncam. If I hand-code a simple thing with M3/M5 this works OK (and the THC works at last, thank you Tom!).

Ncam program is shown in the Axis gui preview window OK; but when I press run the machine just sits there waiting. I know toma_thc needs M3/M5 to fire the torch - I can't find any preference setting in Ncam to pick a spindle/torch command, I can't see any M3/M5 in the gcode window of ncam's output.

How can I get Ncam working with the toma_thc plasma?

I've been using NativeCAM a while now. Very Handy.
One request, though. How about adding some code to return the part/tool to their positions at the start of a routine?
I usually start a few inches away from my part, for safety and convenience. When a NativeCAM routine completes, the tools end up in a fairly arbitrary position above the part.
Sure would be nice to just return, safely, to the point it started from.....
Just asking.....

Thanks for the Linuxcnc plugin, addon, extension, or whatever it's called.......