Post Processor for LinuxCNC and PlasmaC

The way forward is to save your Sheetcam toolset and then import it into Plasmac with the materialverter script.
And use the latest post processor.

You may need to change your drill tool name first. Check the plasmac docs.

So I have been unaware of what's going on for a decent piece. welderstown.com/best-welders-for-beginners/ I'm preparing to send my table data to hypertherm so thy can make the machine profile for me to run in pronest.

Right now the post for Sheetcam is a mix of using its own kerf compensation etc but still uses built in parameters from PlasmaC, such as THC voltage, cut height etc. Which feels a bit like needing to maintain two things. Of course I could always modify the post, which might what I end up doing.

Feels like it would make more sense to modify cut parameters such as kerf, cut speed etc. directly in QtPlasmaC and keep that library on the CNC machine instead of needing to change these parameters in the CAM software,generate new code and then run it again. I would really like to be able to adjust this on the fly at the machine.

How do you people do with this? Is it possible to do so that Sheetcam does "cut on line" but still do the lead in/out properly on the right side as if I would chose Outside offset, and have QtPlasmaC do the kerf compensation? So that two libraries does not need to be maintained.

I use Fusion 360 for most of my CAD work but bought Sheetcam after reading comments it is the best to use for this type of work. Also it is nice to be able to quickly CAD something up in QCad, quickly CAM it and run it directly at the Plasma machine console.

Edit: I found Les PP for Sheetcam that seem to work

Cutter compensation is generally not done at the machine due to the fact that certain features are not possible while cutter compensation is active. This is a LinuxCNC limitation and not due to QtPlasmac/PlasmaC.

Note the "IMPORTANT" note in this section: www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/plasma/..._cutter-compensation

Aha, oh well. Then I guess I will try to adapt stuff so that it makes it as easy as possible to generate new code. I am happy that I found the PP that Les did because it worked pretty good so far from what I have tested so far.

That just gives me an error

The "/tmp/qtplasmac/PlasmaCNC_material.gcode" does not exist, but /tmp/qtplasmac/plasmacnc_material.gcode does exist with all lower case letters. If I copy that file and name it "/tmp/qtplasmac/PlasmaCNC_material.gcode" instead. Then I get this error,

If I change the o=1 or o=2 it says,
If I instead use the built in material in QtPlasmaC it works fine. However since I do the kerf compensation in SheetCAM I want to use the material parameters from that instead of needing to both update the library in QtPlasmaC and SheetCAM.