Post Processor for LinuxCNC and PlasmaC

Has anyone messed around with using hypertherm pronest. Thy now offer a monthly subscription and so far I am LOVING it. Not knocking on sheetcam as it’s gotten me where I am today but man is hypertherms software smooth. The auto nesting is fantastic and only takes around a min to produce some amazing results. Any ways I’m going to be working with hypertherm and giving them my machine specs as thy want it to finish setting up my software profile. Just wondering if any of you have tryied using it with plasmaC.

@ 30$ a month, quite expensive compared to sheetcam.
For professional use, that is very reasonable, but for hobby ....

I have not tried it but I am very interested in seeing if it would work with PlasmaC. Be sure to let us know how you go with it.

New to LinuxCNC i'm wondering what is the processor's utility when using Sheetcam and PlasmaC ?

Will it be possible to have a flowchart combining all the different "modules/software/processor" needed to have a CNC plasma running, starting with the DXF file and having as output the end process (the cutting of the part ?

It might sound stupid but when starting from scratch there are some things that are not easy to figure out

So lets say you design a cool single piece bumper for your jeep in Solidworks and its time to cut 20 flat patterns out of sheet metal ready to be folded up on a brake press. You save your part as a DXF file and load it in Sheetcam. You choose the material and then you nest your 20 parts on a single sheet of steel.

Then you run the post processor in Sheetcam and that converts your file in to gcode based on the rules in a text file that is part of sheetcam (your POST) You set your CNC plasma cutter up for that job, load the gcode file into plasmac and press the start button. The generated gcode loads the appropriate plasmac material to set the cutting parameters.

So that is the CAD/CAM workflow.

rodw wrote: So that is the CAD/CAM workflow.

You forgot sips of coffee in between........