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I have been using Version: 3.17.0.0 (3.17.0) since the release. i can see that it has a lot of new functions, i have planned to look into this for my mill that has a Fagor 8055 control. But for my plasmatable i was just in the process of adding some functions to my post after an upgrade to my torch ...

I was working on a post for my plasma table that runs on linuxcnc and had some trouble. i have made some boxes under configuration options global that i named "cutheight" "piercehight" "safeight" and i want the numbers from these boxes to be in my g-code in brackets as seen in the tooldown section w...

Hello. sorry for the late answer. Yes i use different nozzles but i don't have any automated way to set feed automatic depending on nozzle and material. sounds nice. do you use ngcgui for this? I draw my parts in qcad, then add a layer named cut. i then use the offset tool under lines, and draw my t...

I think i just entered a default spindle speed in my .ini file. it's been a while since i made this, but i use it every day and it works nice. I'l check tomorrow and write here if i did something else too. but i think you can set spindle speed in cam .js file too. search for this section in your .js...

Is there going to be an option to manually reorder entities like it is in cam expert? i really miss that function.

Best regards Bjørn Kristiansen.

Here is a short program for the plasma. I would like to be able to set the wait time in a box in the cam interface. G64 P0.05 G21 G00 X-36.000 Y-1.000 F300 M3 G4 P0.5 (wait for 0.5 seconds before proceeding) G01 X-39.150 Y0.000 G02 X39.150 Y0.000 I39.150 J-0.000 G02 X-39.150 Y0.000 I-39.150 J0.000 G...

I am using 3.1.0 Beta 1 QCADCAM and windows 7 sp 1 home premium 32 bit I have been using CAMExpert and have made machine files to generate G-code for my plasmatable. I am happy to see that it is now integrated in QCad. and i bought it as soon as i saw it was available. But now i have a problem i can...