Zero Pierce delay After pierce Only

rodw wrote:

When this feature was developed, the feeling was the pierce delay should still be used. Does it work for you if you try it?

I forgot to mention Stefan (who's forum name escapes me ATM) was the chief tester on this and he cut countless full sheets of 16mm into small parts without needing to reset the pierce delay.

yes it works if you use 2 tools one with piercing delay and one with 0 delay.
I'm using the tool from sheetcam (tempoary tool created from file). so i need 2 files or edit the file after pierce and reload.
what I'm thinking is just press a button and make the Pircing delay 0,

You could just stop using temporary materials and let the materials in QtPlasmaC be your master.

Then you only have to perfect settings in one place. Furthermore for your situation you’d go to another tab, change the delay,  do your pieces go back to the tab change the delay again and run the program. No editing gcode files necessary.

Temporary materials were meant to be temporary, QtPlasmaC and PlasmaC before were not built with a temporary materials workflow in mind.

snowgoer540 wrote:

Temporary materials were meant to be temporary, QtPlasmaC and PlasmaC before were not built with a temporary materials workflow in mind.

Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution! Quote from someone on the internet...he/she was bloody right!
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I absolutely and strictly use the materials in PlasmaC/QtPlasmaC, using anything else is asking for trouble.
I have modified the Inkscape gcodetools to output the required plasmac-feed-rate in gcode, and that was it.

grijalvap wrote:

yes it works if you use 2 tools one with piercing delay and one with 0 delay.
I'm using the tool from sheetcam (tempoary tool created from file). so i need 2 files or edit the file after pierce and reload.
what I'm thinking is just press a button and make the Pircing delay 0,

In the Sheetcam processor, there are some variables at the top of the file to select between Sheetcam and qtplasmac tools. Sorry about that but had to humor Les at Sheetcam seeing its distributed with his software (and he wrote the post.)!

There is also a script that lets you import a Sheetcam  toolset into qtplasmac

Last I checked this still worked, let me know if you encounter any issues:

linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/plasma/qtpl...#_material_converter