RS485 For Hypertherms

Phill, I don't really know. But I kinda think the plasma is 0, the spotting is 1 as its plasma so its always there and then a user might want to add scribe, air drill, mechanised drill, router, oxy just to name a few. I saw a machine the other day with a BT40 spindle for drilling complete with a material clamp. but somewhere Plasmac needs to set some limits. BUt it would not make sense to add 5 spindles and only use 0, 1 and 4.

I was thinking it was more of a configuration thing rather than internal changes.

Anyway pass my feed back on to your development team
Oh wait, no need for that, they have all been updated!

It's hard to know what to do.
Flexibility in spindle numbering would be nice in that a user could have consecutively numbered spindles but would make GCode not portable between configurations.

Rod,

How do you think a BT40 spindle would go in a plasma environment? Being dirty and dusty and or wet would cause damage to the components?

I guess thats where Phils idea of multiple X axies would come into play, you could make a long x axis and tuck it out of the way while cutting.

thefabricator03 wrote: I guess thats where Phils idea of multiple X axies would come into play, you could make a long x axis and tuck it out of the way while cutting.

Oops, I meant multiple Z axes.

Um, the BT40 was a $20k addon from memory....

Phill, is it necessary to have portability between plasmac installations?
Portability is just a requirement for a machine integrator like Stefan I would have thought. But what you say is not something I had thought about

I am not sure, only if folk require portable GCode.
My main concerns with any changes are backwards compatibility and not breaking previous configs.