Feature Request

Just checked what "expanded metal" is, it is mesh !
That will not work with arcok active, so it will have to be ignored.
The main reason for arcok is to tell the cnc when to start moving after the cutting arc is established, so having that active will stop the motion on every void when the plasma source switches from high current/low voltage cutting to low current/high voltage pilot arc.
That also means the THC will have to be disabled due to the above mentioned voltage changes.
And this brings us to the solution, disable THC and cut as usual. Chances of material warping are very low due to low surface of the cuts.
Now i really wish you would have used the "correct" naming for the material as i was not sure what are you all on about. :side:

tommylight wrote: Just checked what "expanded metal" is, it is mesh !

Sorry about that, I had previously called it mesh, but when I did all the research to figure out how other softwares handle cutting it, everyone referred to it as expanded metal. Maybe I'll call it expanded mesh metal from now on :silly:

That will not work with arcok active, so it will have to be ignored.
The main reason for arcok is to tell the cnc when to start moving after the cutting arc is established, so having that active will stop the motion on every void when the plasma source switches from high current/low voltage cutting to low current/high voltage pilot arc.
That also means the THC will have to be disabled due to the above mentioned voltage changes.
And this brings us to the solution, disable THC and cut as usual. Chances of material warping are very low due to low surface of the cuts.
Now i really wish you would have used the "correct" naming for the material as i was not sure what are you all on about. :side:

Yea, I think we are saying the same things. In order to cut expanded mesh metal, one would need to be able to ignore the arc-ok (force it true), and at the same time disable the THC, as it would dive into the voids. All the videos I saw with Jim Colt all they said was "disable the THC", so I think they are intentionally leaving out the secret sauce (force Arc OK true to ignore it ) At any rate, I'm sure after I finish my fact finding mission, and Phill tidies up the conversational, we will find a suitable solution. I think it would be hyper useful to have the arc ok stuff perform exactly as the THC controls work now...manually enabled/disabled, via material configurations, and via g-code. I think the last one would be incredibly useful for dialing in holes, preventing stops due to expected flame outs at the end of cuts, etc. I could talk about this stuff all day, so I'll stop rambling now

phillc54 wrote:

snowgoer540 wrote: I didn't want to not answer your questions in case there was something hanging out there you were waiting on an answer from me for. I will update, and get back to doing what I do best! Thanks for taking the time to fix these things! Much appreciated.

Hopefully I got it sorted but if not I am confident you will be able to find out.

BTW I like the colour (color) of the water in you tray, it reminded me of the Little Colorado River.

Thanks! It's GreenCut by Lube Corp Manufacturing Inc, they're out of Canada. It has a bit of a piney smell to it too, so the garage smells nice when I fill the table haha. Supposedly it's so safe you can drink it (there are videos of the inventor drinking it... I'll just take his word for it) which was a big consideration because my sister's dogs visit me in the garage sometimes and I didn't want to worry about them drinking it when I wasn't looking. And supposedly it doesn't break down into toxic chemicals with the torch arc temperatures. Evidently that's a problem with the home-made compositions. There's a local supplier on my drive home from work, so it seemed like a no brainer.

I just add 1KG of baking soda and move on!
As for the topic, it should be possible to use one of the existing buttons to make the ARCOK stick, and it would be clearly visible when active as they do change colour.

tommylight wrote: I just add 1KG of baking soda and move on!
As for the topic, it should be possible to use one of the existing buttons to make the ARCOK stick, and it would be clearly visible when active as they do change colour.

That would be a good brute force method for testing purposes. I just need to figure out what coding I need to do to unlink and setp while code is running, and implement it into a button lol.

tommylight wrote: I just add 1KG of baking soda and move on!
As for the topic, it should be possible to use one of the existing buttons to make the ARCOK stick, and it would be clearly visible when active as they do change colour.

+ one less than a £1 a Kilo

Re:

So the system errored then paused and you couldn't jog?

Correct. And also after I pressed stop, it sometimes wouldn't let me jog for a few seconds.

Yes I have also seen that problem the screen locks up but some buttons will change stale when clicked on then after some time the screen unfreezes and every thing is normal again. This was about 1 month ago.