NEW TO CNC AND SHEETCAM
NEW TO CNC AND SHEETCAM
IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE THAT I CAN PAY TO TALK ME AND A PARTNER THROUGH THE PROCESS OF START TO FINISH IN IMPORTING A DXF DRAWING,CHECKING THE VARIOUS STEPS IN STARTING POINTS, START AND STOP POINTS, HOW TO ELIMINATE AND OR MANAGE MODIFYING # OF NODES ON POLYLINES-IN GENERAL HOW TO END WITH CUTTING A USABEL PRODUCT.THANKS FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE TO TWO NEWBIES--JHOP@AOL.COM
- Les Newell
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There are some good video tutorials here http://www.cncinformation.com/sheetcam-videos/. They may help.
- Les Newell
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Yeah, I discovered a jump between videos. Ivan starts one of the videos with a jet that already has the cut path established. He didn't do that step in the previous video.
The tutorials reference an icon to do that process...but it doesn't look the same in the newer version. Took me forever to find it but I finally found it.
After generating the process I did a dry run with the table and it seemed to do fine but I noticed there are no commands to turn the plasma on or off during the job. I've double checked my post processor settings and have even changed them to a couple others to see if it might generate the code differently to no avail. (It's a Mach3 processor and I see that sheetcam comes with 5 or 6 Mach3 options)
Hope I'm making sense with this.
The tutorials reference an icon to do that process...but it doesn't look the same in the newer version. Took me forever to find it but I finally found it.
After generating the process I did a dry run with the table and it seemed to do fine but I noticed there are no commands to turn the plasma on or off during the job. I've double checked my post processor settings and have even changed them to a couple others to see if it might generate the code differently to no avail. (It's a Mach3 processor and I see that sheetcam comes with 5 or 6 Mach3 options)
Hope I'm making sense with this.
- Les Newell
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Sorry Les to be such a newbie on this. I just ran the same DXF file through LazyCam and looked at the G-Code it generated. I was under the assumption that the "M Codes" were only for milling so that was why it was throwing me. It produced the exact same codes, it just labeled them a little more with (Plasma on) and (Plasma off) after the codes.
Thanks for your patience.
Thanks for your patience.
The web site has been disabled, but you can go to youtube and view the videos. https://www.youtube.com/user/arttocnc