Configuring Plasmac - a complete THC/plasma config for any hardware

opps yeah you are right that was indeed a silly mistake but correcting it doesnt chnage anything
at last i have to comment out my arc ok and torch-on pins and finally it runs
but as soon i uncomment them it says pins 8 out not found or 11 i not found

Hi,
I just got my plasma table changed over to PlasmaC on Debian Stretch. Thanks for all the efforts in this! Yesterday I did a successful cut with it. Now today I had trouble with the touchoff. It would come down (ohmic probe) touch steel and trigger ohmic probe, but continue down till I got error " bottom limit reached while probing down. Then when I shut down Linuxcnc I get the following error. Last night I tried adding my custom PYVCP panel to axis (probably not a good choice because it didn't work). Does this have anything to do with my problem? What is the best way to add my own custom buttons to Plasmac?

I need four extra buttons, I have my downdraft table divided into 4 sections. I need them to control the zone valves. Sometime I would like to have it control them automatically with the location of the cutting torch. I attached my ini and also a second error report. Thanks, EW

Like this?



This is actually using custom component that divides the table into 2 zones, but you can use the Lincurve component to create the zones along the Y axis position and trigger a switch accordingly.

I didn't see a reference to a PyVCP panel in your ini file

I removed the PyVCP from the INI and still get the errors.

I just noticed in your ini file that you have:
HALFILE = ./imperial_plasmac_cmds.hal

I have my hal commands spread between that file and my original hal file. Should I combine it to one single hal file?
Do I have all the commands I need, or which commands don't I need with Plasmac? Do I need the PID Commands on all the axis with a stepper system?

rodw

This is actually using custom component that divides the table into 2 zones, but you can use the Lincurve component to create the zones along the Y axis position and trigger a switch accordingly.

Looks Good.
On my table I have very similar setup, but I have the table divided into quarters. 2 X sections and 2 Y sections. I'm not sure that I fully understand the Lincurve component yet. Would that work with the four sections? E.W.