Plasmac Post Processors

Fusion360 post processor for use with PlasmaC. There is also a manual and a test file included.
Please use cautiously at your own risk. It is working for me, but there could still be errors.
Please post any problems or questions over in the existing topic: Fusion360 Post Processor Topic

You will need to remove the .txt extension from the post processor file and the Fusion360 test file.

pronest 2019 post for plasmac
rename to CFF

I've been speaking to Fastcam who have been in the profile cutting software space for a long time regarding a post processor. They asked me If I could provide:
Working Sample code for your Controller
A Matching drawing for the code (DXF / CAM)
Programming manual, if available
I thought it might be a good idea if we could come up with this test suite and place it here so that it is available for any other requests.
I don't mind designing a part that has every Plasmac feature in it and running it through Sheetcam, but it would also need to be output from Fusion360 which has kerf offset compensated code.

So starting with a square part, can we brainstorm the features that need to be on that part to exercise every feature of Plasmac.s Gcode. eg holecutting, spotting, tool change, feedrate setting, kerf compensation (F360), engraving. What else?

Also i wanted to share my PP for Solidworks (Camworks). it is basically a copy of phils Sheetcam PP.

Its not fully tested, so always check trough the gcode, for my spotting, marking etc it works. No scribing and it is setup for a metric machiene .

the attached Plasma001.ctl is the compiled PP file. Under your machiene setup in camworks point to this file. The file location should also contain the attached info files with Plasma001_L.rtf,Plasma001_S.rtf, Plasma001.pinf and Plasma001.lng

it might be necessary to compile the PP on your machiene yourself. U need to download the UPG (universal post generator) from the camworks site. You open the source file Plasma001.gpsd in the EC Editor (The UPG wont recognize the file, u cant open it with the UPG). Under the section Library files u change the path to the Plasma001.lib file to the location you have it on your computer, the same for the Master Library file from camworks Mill.Lib.

You save the Plasma001.gpsd file and now in the UPG Program you go to File--> compile source and select the freshly edited Plasma001.gpsd. After sucessful compilation, select it again in your solidworks machiene setup and regenerate the toolpaths.

that should do the trick

Is there no post for QtPlasmaC and SheetCAM yet? Or is that a straight up PlasmaC PP that is used?

The Sheetcam post processor does not contain kerf-width stuff etc though, which the Fusion 360 post has got.

sm2wmv wrote:

The Sheetcam post processor does not contain kerf-width stuff etc though, which the Fusion 360 post has got.

Sheetcam outputs kerf compensated code so its not required.

The gcode has not changed between plasmac and qtplasmac so the post has not changed.