Snuggly's Plasma Build

Hope you all had a good holiday season and you're ready for the coming year.

Well gentlemen, weather let up and it's warm enough to be outside. Had to take the machine apart to replace some spacers, it's back together, belts are tightened and today is the day I start cutting, here's to hoping there are not errors and everything goes well. I'll update this post with the result of that test.

snugglylovemuffin wrote: Well gentlemen, weather let up and it's warm enough to be outside.

Warm???? It was -7 when i went to work, it did not go over -3 all day and 20cm of snow!
Lucky you !

hah, well my machine was outside and covered in ice so... not so lucky me. It needs a home.

Unfortunately I when I went to run my file (thanks again for the tutorial), I got a "joint 3 on limit" when the float switch was activated; very annoying as I thought this issue was fixed. Mind looking at it for me? I don't want to start editing without a second set of eyes.

Islander mentioned trimming up the limits:
net TriggerLimit or2.2.out => joint.3.neg-lim-sw-in joint.3.pos-lim-sw-in joint.3.home-sw-in

I'll try eliminating some of these and see if it solves my issue.

Update: commented line out, wouldn't stop throwing errors.

Z axis keeps crashing and destroying my float switches... FFS.

@tommylight, do I need to manually edit the gcode and remove all the z axis components? The Toma system is just supposed to work off an M3, right?

The joint.3 on limit error is cause by both the float switch (FloatSwitch) and the TorchOn signals being active at the same time. Use Halscope or Halmeters to verify the operation of your float switch and the TorchOn signal. Also Look at the ArcOk signal because if there is a polarity problem there it may screw up the logic. You are going to need to trace out the logic of the THC component your self or get Tommy to sort this out if you can't get it.

Any Z axis commands in the Gcode will cause the Z axis to move the way the connections are made in THC.Hal if the THC is not active.

When I used to use Gcodetools I would always hand edit the files to remove all Z axis movements. It is pretty quick using the search and replace editing tool. I was using my old TM controller not LCNC at the time.

John

So when the machine "crashes" is plunges into the material, and then starts moving around, still firmly pressed into the material, which is strange. It should, according the the code, touch off, go to pierce height, then down to cut height and then begin to follow the path. I'll "scope" it out and see what issues I can pinpoint.

Yeah the Toma system is supposed to work entirely off an M3 command, so I did edit the gcode tools window. I'll get back to it and report findings.