Another plasma component...

Phill

Thanks again for all your hard work. I cut 8 sheets out on Saturday and except for one apparent strange thing it all worked great! I am still using a version from the first week of May. Now here is what happened. I have a part the has a large number of simple pierces for holes close together (lots of dots) that are made with the THC disabled as they are typically cut (pierced, punched) with the same tool I use for open lines. For the most part this works really well with the IHS skip function really preventing nozzle damage and speeding things up. The only problem is if you have an error and you are within the IHS skip distance the machine doesn't reset to the "need to probe" state when come out of the machine paused condition. Of course this is one of those corner conditions that I am probably the only one to ever come across in routine use. I just wanted to report this before I forgot about it. This sheet has 18 parts on it with 1017 pierces on the sheet.

The Plasmac branch produces the best cut quality of any control I have used on my machine!

Rod

Thanks for helping everyone out with their configuration problems. I have been unemployed for nearly 4 years now and the arrival of new outside work (when I had just legally retired the day before) I don't have time to help out right now.

John

islander261 wrote: Phill
The only problem is if you have an error and you are within the IHS skip distance the machine doesn't reset to the "need to probe" state when come out of the machine paused condition. Of course this is one of those corner conditions that I am probably the only one to ever come across in routine use. I just wanted to report this before I forgot about it. This sheet has 18 parts on it with 1017 pierces on the sheet.

John thanks for the report, according to my docs it IS supposed to reset to the "need to probe" state.
I will find out what I did wrong.

Cheers, Phill.

phillc54 wrote: I think I prefer this way.
The gcode file is completely parsed before loading then it reports all tools that are not found and stops the program from loading.
It also makes for a cleaner gcode file as no code is required.
Cheers, Phill.

Phill, go with that then, I'm struggling with calls to the o code subroutine

Im Getting an error "Unknown Control Command in O word in the call

I should have waited, I had just attached it for you to try here

Cheers, Phill.

Phill

Error


If anybody else is following, you need to give the file execute permissions.

Rod,
Could you post the gcode file you were trying to load.