Feature update required.

Back in 2008 it was not correctly described in the docs, so it was PCW's issue that flagged it.

Unless the THC in 2.9 adopted feed-upm as the sole pin for the feed rate, there is no point changing anything as nothing is really improved. I don't see how that can break anything, as the plasmac feed pin is still there to use in the shape library and from the materials library. Plus feed-upm will reflect the value regardless of how its set.

Anyway, that is the issue that brought state flags to my attention and I've been studying it and how it could be used for a long time. I started to create a pin like Dewey did but he did it for me before I got a result

Anyway, wait until 2.8 is released and we get back to a proper (new code goes in master branch) workflow.

Are you saying
F[<_hal[plasmac.cut-feed-rate]>*0.6] won't work?
What about adaptive feed? is it broken too?

I've had some luck with dealing with state tags so will keep at it.
I'm not sure the decision by Dewey to publish it with feed overrides was a good thing as it does break compatibility with existing code as you have found out.

I think also it needs a motion.feed-ups (units per second) so it is compatible with current-vel et.al. That would let you plot current-vel and feed-ups in equivalent units in halscope without having to use mult2 to compare.

What I think I will do is publish all the raw state tags data on another set of pins eg. like motion.tag.feed-rate and motion.tag.mode so all the data is accessible.

I think the negatives are coming from the fact that you had a number of workarounds built into plasmac due to lack of features in LCNC. If these features were available when you started, you may have gone about things differently.....

You wait until I've finished, I'll really make your day with a lot more negatives!

How does your sheetcam post processor do it? I always used the adaptive feed.
I wonder if the difference really matters? If somebody had overridden the feed rate, I can see there is an argument that that should be the new cutting feed rate.

Leave it for a few days and I may have some updates if somebody will accept a PR but I discussed what I'm doing with Andy last night. I need to test the arc radius is working correctly after what I did last night. I need to test it against code I know the dimensions of.