GUI for PlasmaC - QtPlasmac

Hi Phil,

The gray one looks nice.

Some thoughts..

Is the pause button also the resume button, or is the run button equal to resume? I remember feed-inhibited was preferred to use in some cases.
Is there a restart button with a restart sequence + restart attempts + arc timeout ?

Homing will stay a problem in lcnc. If homing is set in the ini, you have to home, no matter what, this is really a thing to solve. It has to get a freigabe flag so machine can move if homing in ini is set true.

Grotius wrote: Is the pause button also the resume button, or is the run button equal to resume?

The pause button is resume when paused and the run button will single step when paused.

Homing will stay a problem in lcnc. If homing is set in the ini, you have to home, no matter what, this is really a thing to solve. It has to get a freigabe flag so machine can move if homing in ini is set true.

Not sure about this, I think LinuxCNC homing works well.

Hi Phill,

In a industrial application the plasma machine is often up whole day.

When a user works on different tasks, like cad-cam etc. They will restart linuxcnc somehow.
When the machine was already homed, they have to home again. In mach 3 this home module is coded the right way.

For lcnc i use a solution with 2 desktop icon's. One for homing and one for non homing (when homing is already done).
I like to see that this is solved trough a freigabe flag in the future.

The pause button is resume when paused and the run button will single step when paused.
This is nice !

For restart button i use a component. It goes 10mm path reverse with the help of negative adaptive feed and then
it restart's the torch etc.

Grotius wrote: When the machine was already homed, they have to home again. In mach 3 this home module is coded the right way.

If the machine is homed, pressing Home All will unhome all axes or pressing Home for an individual axis will unhome that axis.

For restart button i use a component. It goes 10mm path reverse with the help of negative adaptive feed and then
it restart's the torch etc.

When paused, the jog panel is hidden and a cut recovery panel is shown, this allows reverse run with adaptive feed and also offsetting X and y. Pressing resume will restart with a probe.

Hi Phill,

Perfect job. You think of everything !!
I wish you all succes with development of the new plasma gui app.
When it's ready. We gonna test it !

Thanks Grotius, there is a long way to go.

Are you still working on you CAD/CAM project?