Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

So if you are not using SheetCam, are you plotting your parts with a cad system, saving the DXF, then manually entering your M3/5 points? Sorry to be redundant, just trying to get a better idea as to how you are going about things. I mostly trace bit maps of JPEG images, and will use SheetCam to ...

I wonder if I can ask you where the plasma trigger is located in the G code you posted? How did you accomplish this with the Acorn board? My machine is a Thermal Dynamics Cutmaster 101, and I have a built in trigger that the previous system used for firing the torch. Is this sequence done through ...

Thanks for the reply. As you can see, I am pretty much desperate to get some sort of answer to my plight.

So basically, it is like milling a part rather than an actual plasma burn? I run mostly 16 ga, sheet stock for my projects, up to 3/16", so THC is pretty much essential. I am looking into ...

I really enjoyed your video's of your machine in motion. If you don't have THC on your machine, how do you program the correct arc distance, and how dod you set up the Z axis parameters? Are you using a floating head on the Z? Please let me know. I'm at the beginning stages of rebuilding my plasma ...

I looked over the pages(s) that you mentioned, but my problem is adapting the Acorn software to actually have THC, and how to control it. Tech support tells me that my setting up an output a Macro, it will turn on/off the THC. Also, they tell me that once this is done, the THC will take control of ...

Is it possible to set up the Acorn control controller, with MillPro software, to successively run a CNC plasma table? I am retrofitting an existing 4' x 8' table, and replacing everything that was motion control on it. My plasma is a Thermodynamics Cutmaster 101. I have already purchased the Acorn ...

I am also in the same boat.. seems that we fell on deaf ears. Any progress in setting up a THC on your table?? Let us know!!! Thanks.

J.

Did you have any luck finding a THC for your table? I just purchased the Acorn 4 axis CNC board for a retrofit to an existing table that I own. Replacing everything, as far as motion control is concerned. Please let me now. I am at a standstill with this aspect of my project.Also, if you have made ...