My Homemade plasma CNC

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1 year 8 months ago #322531 by rodw
Replied by rodw on topic My Homemade plasma CNC
Remember a plasma cutter is a blunt axe, not a surgical scalpel.
Ask yourself is the cut quality adequate for welding and fabrication? It will never be like an accurately machined part.
The plasma primer has some info about cut heights and angularity
linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/plasma/pla...mer.html#_cnc_plasma
 
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1 year 8 months ago #322559 by MTTI
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For the edges of the parts, this is not a big problem for me, but the main issue is with the holes—they are oval instead of round.
I have already read this page and understand the height vs. angle relationship, but why does this only happen in the Y direction in my case?
On X direction the cuts are perfectly straight.

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1 year 8 months ago #322629 by rodw
Replied by rodw on topic My Homemade plasma CNC
Is the Y properly calibrated?

What hole processing does Pronest have?
What diameter hole are you cutting?
What material and thickness?

Its suggested to slow cut velocity to about 60% for holes.

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1 year 8 months ago - 1 year 8 months ago #322696 by MTTI
Replied by MTTI on topic My Homemade plasma CNC
Is the Y properly calibrated? Yes

What hole processing does Pronest have? The defaut processing, into Pronest, I change the material and that's it
What diameter hole are you cutting? The last cuts were with 62mm hole diameter
What material and thickness? Same, the last cut were with midl steel, 15mm thick.

I wil try next time  reducing feed-rate to 60% and see. But I think it will be the same because i've got this issue also with straigt cuts
Last edit: 1 year 8 months ago by MTTI. Reason: Formating

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