To set up SheetCam for plasma cutting, use the “SheetCam Ng setup wizard”.
How to get SheetCAM Freeįollow the instructions provided by Avid CNC to download your SheetCam license if you haven’t done so. M codes won’t be displayed in the tool preview, but any path rules that change the feed rate percentage will highlight affected operations in blue rather than the usual green. To see SheetCam’s features, click on the features button. SheetCam can be used for routing, milling, cutting, waterjet, laser, and oxyfuel cutting. Next, click on the drop-down bar under Post Processor to select FireControl V1.1 as shown below. Next, make sure you have correctly configured the Post Processor tab’s Output file units and Output folder. Double-click on the name to edit a Path Rule. You can add additional types of path rules by clicking on the “Add rule” button at the bottom of the Path Rules editor window. The menus represent the functions that you can access, as you might expect. You can also customize it to suit your project specifications and enable the measurement tool so your design is as precise as possible. This webcam program is easy to use and has many features. Next, we will continue with the licensing and setup process. The Hypertherm cut charts are prepopulated into the tool. Here is an example configuration of a plasma tool for the CrossFire PRO Razorweld 45A cutter. Here is an example configuration of a plasma tool for CrossFire with no Z-Axis. The zip contains a data folder that contains everything needed to run SheetCam. We can now create programs in FireControl to be cut using SheetCAM by selecting the FireControl Post Processor. Some windows may have an incorrect layout, such as wire operation. You will see four options for customizing the post-processor. There are four options to customize the post-processor. This value will automatically populate Mach4 when the program runs using the AvidCNC Mach4 preprocessor.
To install SheetCam, you can simply double-click on the file. Make sure that ‘execute is enabled’ in the permissions tab.
Select “Set custom post options” at the bottom of your screen.
The “Tools” pane will display a list with all the tools that are available after you have selected your toolset. After the file has been downloaded, navigate to the Downloads folder on your computer and copy the FireControl-v1.6.scpostfile that you just downloaded. You will first need to go to the Langmuir Systems downloads page and download the latest FireControl SheetCAM Post file. You can inspect each pattern individually or zoom in to see the entire model.