SheetCam combined witn Mach3 and a torch height controller from CandCNC for an unbeatable plasma cutting solution. This is useful for machines running Mach3 for instance. For machines that have full control over the Z axis you can program the pierce height and cut height directly. Without trying to cut it, see how you can get the holes centre spotted and the inside and outside profiles cut in the Sheetcam simulation. SheetCam has many useful features for plasma, laser, waterjet and oxy-fuel cutting. I set the max diameter of the holes in the drilling operation to 20 mm (0.75 inch if you are that way inclined) Here's my metric test file if you want to play with something. I suspect the intent of the original PP we followed was to allow a drilling operation with the named tool to spot with plasma (eg 'Centre Spot') and would also support a drill if say there was another tool that was called '10mm drill' if a drill spindle was used. You have to use a drilling operation to locate the hole centre. I tried other methods but could not get sheetcam to move to the centre of the holes.

Use a drill operation where the holes to be spotted fall within the minimum and maximum diameters in the drill operation This took about 2 weeks to get everything working nicely, and how to make it work correctly in Fusion 360 is a huge question that I dont have time to work on and perfect. Move holes to a new layer so they are not cut on a normal jet operationĢ. SheetCam will look at the GCode it is generating and intelligently decide where to place 'M62P5' to allow THC Z axis motion and 'M63P5' to prevent THC Z axis motion. To spot the centre of a hole regardless of the tool used, you need to do two thingsġ. I am at work now and had a play in sheetcam ignoring any tools. If you don't have a drill mounted on your machine, its intuitive to me. The whole intent of using a centre spot is to drill a hole later. Re: SheetCam with a CNC Router Post by Les Newell Wed 5:13 pm msimpson99 wrote: The first would be the ability to create a shortcut on my desktop that loads SheetCam setup to do my Plasma Cutting. IMHO the drill operation should be removed as a centre spot option and kept for a drill spindle down the track. To me it is unintuitive to expect a drill operation to be a plasma centre spot.

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