Some plasma cutters take varying amounts of time to start the arc. With these the only way to get a truly reliable pierce is to use a THC system with arc detection. That way it waits for the arc before starting cutting. A less than ideal workaround is to increase your pierce delay quite a bit. This ...
Sorry for the late reply. I'm afraid HSM advisor isn't on my to-do list at the moment. I remember starting on an integration many years ago. I can't remember exactly why but there was an issue with doing so. Having said that, HSM advisor has probably changed a lot in the mean time.
I'm wondering how I can create a post for my machine that would work with my plasma table. I'm pretty new to CNC, being only 17, so I appreciate your help. What CNC controller does your machine use? I'm not exactly sure if I understand what you mean by the offset amount. I thought it was the measur...
Linux is a nightmare to support. Every new release breaks something.
Theer is a package called Wine that allows you to run Windows executables on Linux. You may have a better experience using the Windows version with Wine.
I see a number of issues. None of the plasma posts are set up for drag knife. You need to use a milling/routing post. The 'Offset amount' in your cut operation is to adjust the overall size of your part. Normally I'd recommend setting it to 0 unless you are doing something like inlay work where you ...
1. Arc has diameter 20mm, so 40% feedrate should be applied, but it is 70% (the second half of hole has correct 40% feedrate) Hmm, that's an odd one. It does look like something strange is going on in SheetCam. It is triggering the 40% override then the 70% override, which is the wrong way around. ...
What extra parameters do you need to add by hand? It is possible to add extra parameters to your tool definitions if needed. Take a look at the post.DefineCustomToolParam documentation.