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7 years 5 months ago #135230 by rodw
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Nah, I'll just get Grotius to send me one!

I actually have my eye on an ex-TAFE CNC one 1300mm wide at $20k which would be a perfect companion for the spaceship and the size of my workshop but I thought I'd be disciplined and use someone else's for a while as I'm not sure if the volume would justify it. Plus I know nothing about them at all.

The ex-Tafe lathe I bought the day I went to buy a new one cleaned up as good as new as it really had not been used much at all so I guess the brake would be the same..
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7 years 5 months ago - 7 years 5 months ago #135232 by phillc54

islander261 wrote: Guys

Quick test on my office machine, just sim, no RT hardware or OS.

jd@deskmonsterll:~$ uname -a
Linux deskmonsterll 4.9.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1+deb9u2 (2019-05-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Torch enable button color doesn't change with button state.

John


It works 100% here on both machines with Gmoccapy and Axis.

Wheezy:
Code:
lcnc:~ $ uname -a Linux lcnc 3.4-9-rtai-686-pae #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 3.4.55-4linuxcnc i686 GNU/Linux lcnc:~ $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 7.11 (wheezy) Release: 7.11 Codename: wheezy

Stretch:
Code:
phill@stretch ~ $ uname -a Linux stretch 4.9.0-6-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux phill@stretch ~ $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.8 (stretch) Release: 9.8 Codename: stretch

John, THC active should show when it is actually activated, it would be easy enough to change that to show enabled/disabled if everyone is happy with that. As you know I am not a cutter so everything I do is guesswork...

Cheers, Phill.

Edit:

The Z up and Z down indicators are more accurately described as THC up and THC down

Fixed...
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7 years 5 months ago #135234 by islander261
Phill

I have no doubt that the torch enable button color works correctly on you installs, mine did too until the latest. This must be something buried deep because my .ini only differs from the imperial sim at the points required for my hardware. I do have a machine specific .hal file that contains both the machine motion and machine specific connections. I am doing as your sims and my local configuration folder just has links to the ../bymachine/plasmac/ folder for all the plasmac files so I don't have to do a bunch of copying after every update.

Please don't take my comments about the GUI function as gospel. If I feel there is a serious safety or operational problem I will be very clear about that. Most of the time I am trying to stimulate discussion to get other's view points. I work alone in a very rural location and have no interaction with other plasma users plus I am self taught having never worked in a job shop setting (though I purchased job shop services for most of my professional life). When I ran a small engineering department one of the mottoes I had on the wall was "There is always a better way, it is up to us to find it".

John
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7 years 5 months ago #135238 by islander261
Rod

Those are nice looking parts. Are you using a wire cup brush to clean them up? With no water table you should have the dross flick off with a fingernail if there is any on those long straight sides. Be careful about always using the correct PPE when doing secondary operations on parts, I have had bits of dross end up in all sorts of places I don't want it even with a full face shield and head gear. As I have said before get your self some sort of mass finishing system before the pile of part become overwhelming.

'03

There is a fellow here that worked on and I believe finished an LCNC driven press brake. I know so little about actually using a press brake I wouldn't know where to start.

John
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7 years 5 months ago #135255 by rodw
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islander261 wrote: Phill

I have no doubt that the torch enable button color works correctly on you installs, mine did too until the latest. This must be something buried deep because my .ini only differs from the imperial sim at the points required for my hardware.

John


It just ocurred to me that I think John was a bit slower updating so we most likely broke on the same upgrade. I wonder if its becasue we've both dabbled in Glade to make new gmoccappy screens in the past?

Also, can you guys outline how you use the reverse run feature? I've never been able to make it move anywhere.
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Those are nice looking parts. Are you using a wire cup brush to clean them up? With no water table you should have the dross flick off with a fingernail if there is any on those long straight sides. Be careful about always using the correct PPE when doing secondary operations on parts, I have had bits of dross end up in all sorts of places I don't want it even with a full face shield and head gear. As I have said before get your self some sort of mass finishing system before the pile of part become overwhelming.
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John thanks. I just ran a flap disk over them. There were some burrs where I drilled holes that needed to be cleaned up as well. I'll give a wire brush a go.

I did a fairly busy nest in sheetcam today to clean up an offcut



I'm not sure what happened here.



This was near the beginning of the cut and the edge warped up about 40mm while cutting. I wondered if the air pressure was too low or something. I'll remember to purge the air line with the torch pulse function next time. Managed to work out how to nest parts in sheetcam inside the flange cutout. So much to learn.
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7 years 5 months ago #135256 by phillc54

It just ocurred to me that I think John was a bit slower updating so we most likely broke on the same upgrade. I wonder if its becasue we've both dabbled in Glade to make new gmoccappy screens in the past?

Does the text in the button change as it should?
Is your OS up to date?

Cheers, Phill.

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