QTPlasmac interpreting Sheetcam material selection, M190
23 Jun 2022 02:02 #245640
by LinfieldGarage
Hello All,
I was working on aligning both Sheetcam and the QTPlasmac materials lists when I noticed QTP doing something odd. I grabbed the Hypertherm materials and Plasmac materials lists from the forum and imported them into both Sheetcam and QTP successfully.
In the screenshot below you can see that the Gcode output by Sheetcam is trying to call material 6 on line 21. On line 23 you see o=0, and the other material settings.
In the interpreted Gcode on the right, you see that QTP ignored the "T0 M6" line, and added "m190 1000000" on line 25. I opened the QTP python code and found the section that deals with m190 (including the typo which helped me find this). It seems to create a temporary material 1000000 when it doesn't know what else to do. This caused the machine to run the Default material settings, not the actual material 6 settings.
Do we know if the Sheetcam PP is outputting materials incorrectly, if that "o=0" should be something else, or if I have something setup wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Jamie
I was working on aligning both Sheetcam and the QTPlasmac materials lists when I noticed QTP doing something odd. I grabbed the Hypertherm materials and Plasmac materials lists from the forum and imported them into both Sheetcam and QTP successfully.
In the screenshot below you can see that the Gcode output by Sheetcam is trying to call material 6 on line 21. On line 23 you see o=0, and the other material settings.
In the interpreted Gcode on the right, you see that QTP ignored the "T0 M6" line, and added "m190 1000000" on line 25. I opened the QTP python code and found the section that deals with m190 (including the typo which helped me find this). It seems to create a temporary material 1000000 when it doesn't know what else to do. This caused the machine to run the Default material settings, not the actual material 6 settings.
Do we know if the Sheetcam PP is outputting materials incorrectly, if that "o=0" should be something else, or if I have something setup wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Jamie
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23 Jun 2022 02:23 #245644
by LinfieldGarage
Replied by LinfieldGarage on topic QTPlasmac interpreting Sheetcam material selection, M190
Hey guys,
I answered my own question. Here is what I did for documentation's sake.
In the Sheetcam PP there is an option called cparms (custom parameters). When "cparms=true" it outputs extra commands that caused the behavior I noticed.
When "cparms=false" the Sheetcam PP outputs the correct material choice in the proper M190 format. See screenshot for an example of the corrected Gcode.
Hope this helps someone someday.
I answered my own question. Here is what I did for documentation's sake.
In the Sheetcam PP there is an option called cparms (custom parameters). When "cparms=true" it outputs extra commands that caused the behavior I noticed.
When "cparms=false" the Sheetcam PP outputs the correct material choice in the proper M190 format. See screenshot for an example of the corrected Gcode.
Hope this helps someone someday.
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