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#1 · 28 February 2025, 16:41

Good morning,
I currently use a plasma cutting table SimCNC, CSmio/ip-s, sheetcam and would like to add a pneumatic engraver to indicate marks on the cut parts.

It would travel on the same X and Y carriage as the plasma torch.
It would be triggered with a pneumatic solenoid valve activated by a relay.
With this design there would be a fixed offset on X and Y relative to the plasma torch. The height of the Z axis would not be taken into account.



How to program this option on SimCNC and on sheetcam without having to change the tools on select material on each piece?

THANKS

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#2 · 6 March 2025, 11:57

It's simple.

Using the M6 macro:
- raise the Z axis, i.e. the torch
- set the digital signal lowering the pneumatic actuator
- change the tool offset.

SimCNC has, apart from the standard offsets, also a shift offset for the X and Y axes.

In sheetcam, you change the tool to another so that the postprocessor generates the M6 command.

When you want to cut the sheet metal, you do the opposite analogously.

#3 · 16 May 2025, 07:17

Hello,

I've successfully created a new marking tool in SheetCam, but how do I modify the postprocessor "

SimCNC only one parameter" to generate an M6 command? 

Thank you.

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#4 · 23 May 2025, 12:35

Hello,

If you want to modify the post processor, you would have to review the sheetcam documentation on this. Alternatively, write to sheetcam support so they can advise you, or send you a description of creating post processors for SheetCAM.

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