Tormach Plasma

I do not use PROMA products (

I also have a conversational shapes wizards for Mach3/4, UCCNC.

Just now starting with PathPilot to explore teh possibilties.

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Vmax549 wrote: Just now starting with PathPilot to explore teh possibilties.

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I think its a pretty easy choice. You either adopt Plasmac as a complete done for you Linuxcnc Plasma controller system and choose from the traditional Axis interface or the Gmocappy touch screen interface.
OR:
You attempt to do something with a proprietary locked down Linuxcnc system built for Tormach's own purposes for Milling machines, not a plasma table and attempt to create our own plasma config and screen set which ill be a frustrating and time consuming journey. You might be able to fold in the Plasmac component but Plasmac is much more than a real time component. Its a complete system.

here is a reason why those of us who have attempted something similar threw out hundreds of hours (probably thousands) of our time and effort to adopt Plasmac. But we did that becasue we knew that Plasmac had built upon our early work and incorporated our experience into the system. All of us have been gobsmacked to see how effortless plasmac made our life.

I want to point out a couple of things once again.

@Vmax549 PP does not limit you in the usage of int(). the call to LinuxCNC is placing that limit on you. PP is just written in python. python supports int() as a builtin function.

@rodw PP is not proprietary, PP is open source, you can get it from tormach. all the source, linuxcnc and the PP gui.

allot of people come here looking for PP and end up moving to Axis or other GUI. if you look at it that way it's brought many people who would still be using Mach3/4 to linuxCNC

maybe we should treat it that way instead of making non factual statements about PP (this is not directed at anyone in this thread, it's a general statement)

Tormach has responded to me that if I wanted to publish thier source on github I could, they would prefer I not but it's all opensource they acknowledged. they can't stop anyone from doing so.

they recommend user not try to make PP work in thier cases but instead work on a GUI that supports everything they need.

( Int() will not work with anything related to Gcode in PP as teh gcode side of PP only uses Float values. It is stated in teh manual. IF you had read on you would have found I said that as I had to use teh int() from teh Python side to make the function work properly.

IF Tormach did not mean for anyone else to use their controller they picked a very bad controller to work with . Like they said it is open source. ALSO Tormach is NOT a control software company they are a hardware company that uses an open source controller to sell their hardware . They COULD have easily picked a commercial controller to use with their hardware and not have to worry IF someone used their controller on a NON tormach machine. That is teh way the big boys play the game. They sell hardware not software.

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@Vmax549, I posted the int() comment to the wrong thread, my apologies on that.