Feature Request

phillc54 wrote: I just pushed some fixes which hopefully will sort issues these out.

@Greg, I updated the cut-recovery branch as well.

@Clive, can you recall how it happened as it "should" only affect the manual/single cut feature.

Quick note, I believe users with older hal files will have to comment out the following lines in their <machine_name>.hal to make the latest update work:

Ok, sorry for a bunch of posts while the rest of the world is likely asleep.

So, jogging with F9 is fixed, everything seemed to work well there. Even tried F9 with the torch off, and it found the metal and just stopped like it should. I did not try anything that caused paused motion though to see how that works. I will get to that tomorrow.

After I went to regular 65A consumables, I did discover that Hypertherms do output an Arc-OK in CPA mode after the first true arc. CPA mode must just not work with FineCut consumables. So that helps some things anyways.

That said, I still think there is monumental value in the ability to choose when you ignore the arc-ok. Especially via G-Code.

snowgoer540 wrote: Quick note, I believe users with older hal files will have to comment out the following lines in their <machine_name>.hal to make the latest update work:

Code:

#net spindle-manual-cw halui.spindle.0.forward #net spindle-manual-ccw halui.spindle.0.reverse #net spindle-manual-stop halui.spindle.0.stop

Yes, that is correct, well the spindle.0.stop at a minimum.

snowgoer540 wrote: That said, I still think there is monumental value in the ability to choose when you ignore the arc-ok. Especially via G-Code.

I think we could do a mesh mode that disables THC and ignores lost ARC OK.
It could be either of:
A checkbutton in the run panel.
A User Button so then it is the users option to have it or not.

Either way is fine with me.

phillc54 wrote:

snowgoer540 wrote: That said, I still think there is monumental value in the ability to choose when you ignore the arc-ok. Especially via G-Code.

I think we could do a mesh mode that disables THC and ignores lost ARC OK.
It could be either of:
A checkbutton in the run panel.
A User Button so then it is the users option to have it or not.

Either way is fine with me.

What are the odds of turning it on and off with G-code?

snowgoer540 wrote:

phillc54 wrote:

snowgoer540 wrote: That said, I still think there is monumental value in the ability to choose when you ignore the arc-ok. Especially via G-Code.

I think we could do a mesh mode that disables THC and ignores lost ARC OK.
It could be either of:
A checkbutton in the run panel.
A User Button so then it is the users option to have it or not.

Either way is fine with me.

What are the odds of turning it on and off with G-code?

If it is done correctly by the developer and the gcode creator, then pretty good...