Another plasma component...

Excellent. That's the behavior I was hoping for and what I had understood from the documentation. I think I have a pretty decent way to do this now. I'll post a link here and start a new thread on the plasmac post processor for Fusion 360 once I get a little further along. I know a lot of you are using Sheetcam and it seems to be a good product - I just have a lot of experience using Fusion 360 already (CNC routing, 3d printing) so want to stick with it if I can.

Steven

Yes
www.candcnc.net/store-home/feather-touch-ohmic-sensor/

I think other systems have a sensitivity setting (eg a pot.) I wonder if we could use a Mesa analog input somehow as part of this?

docwelch wrote: Excellent. That's the behavior I was hoping for and what I had understood from the documentation. I think I have a pretty decent way to do this now. I'll post a link here and start a new thread on the plasmac post processor for Fusion 360 once I get a little further along. I know a lot of you are using Sheetcam and it seems to be a good product - I just have a lot of experience using Fusion 360 already (CNC routing, 3d printing) so want to stick with it if I can.

Steven

If Fusion 360 has a tool table in text format I could have a look at adding that to the material file converter.

rodw wrote: Yes
www.candcnc.net/store-home/feather-touch-ohmic-sensor/

I think other systems have a sensitivity setting (eg a pot.) I wonder if we could use a Mesa analog input somehow as part of this?

Yes, I have just seen a couple of others.
neuroncnc.com/products/004
minithc.com/pub/Ohmic_Sensor_EN.pdf

I would be wary of connecting to a analog input directly, I think it would need some sort of isolation

Maybe PCW could come up with something...

Phill,

It does have a tool table. I think plasmac will require something a little different but I did find this Fusion 360 tool table to LinuxCNC . I don’t have an extensive tool table built for plasma cutting at this time but I can send what I have to you for testing if you want.

Guys,
I understand the reasoning behind the material table for plasmac and its relationship to the tool table in the CAM program. Are there any situations where you change the tool/material in a single g code file?

Steven

docwelch wrote: Phill,

It does have a tool table. I think plasmac will require something a little different but I did find this Fusion 360 tool table to LinuxCNC . I don’t have an extensive tool table built for plasma cutting at this time but I can send what I have to you for testing if you want.

Guys,
I understand the reasoning behind the material table for plasmac and its relationship to the tool table in the CAM program. Are there any situations where you change the tool/material in a single g code file?

Steven

I think the Plasmac version of a "tool table" or materials list will be quite different to a conventional tool table for a milling machine or lathe. But if you go back to the example I posted,

Is selecting Plasmac tool #2 from the GUI list and waits for one second for plasmac acknowledged it was loaded.