Its happened with different drawings.SheetCam is a low cost but feature packed CAM package. There doesn't seem to be a definite pattern but it usually crashes soon after opening.
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When does SheetCam crash? I should have read the options more carefully.
#SHEETCAM SETTING LEAD IN WINDOWS#
If you aren't getting that window the report is created directly from Windows and I don't know of any way of reading it. If so there is a button to create the reports as a file. What are you calling crashing, the only problem I have had is with a file I was trying to load into SheetCam that was not successful, not a SheetCam problem. The licensed is on there already so just the downloaded version is needed for this to work. Is there a file generated somewhere I can copy and submit? Any ideas of what I can do to eliminate this problem? It is asking to submit a online report but I have no internet where it is located. Lately the Development version has been crashing consistently. This is a dedicated machine with lots of memory and HD space.
#SHEETCAM SETTING LEAD IN SOFTWARE#
Post your questions or tips on SheetCam software in this topic. Now, I’m still ‘new’ to this so maybe the phenomenon is well known, but doing a quick search for info about this didn’t yield anything.Privacy Terms. Then highlighting the operation you’ll see that the ‘Starts’ are at the Leadout end, not the Leadin end of the segment and, if you edit them with the Start point editor, the start will only change if you click on the Leadin end and it will then become the Leadout end. Not convinced? Try a simple open segment with a Leadin, no Leadout. When I edited a ‘Start’ point, I was really creating the ‘End’ point for the segment! Why? Well, again, long story short, for each operation I had Reverse Cut Direction checked (as advised for Plasma cutters) and, in so doing, the Start Point editor, on an open path, creates an End Point with the Start point at the other end of the line! Without going into all the gory details, I discovered that I was being tripped up as to WHERE the ‘Start’ point was being flagged. If I tried to set a Start Point at the end of the previous section, the Inside/Outside relationship reversed. So, ok, no problem, I started adjusting the Start Points in the second section and found something VERY confusing. However, last night I realized it will be easier to align the indexed sheet IF the first cut of the next section is at the very end of a cut on the current section. Cool, SheetCam processed it all very nicely with good leadins and cut directions. I defined the operations for each, checking Offset Open Paths and Leadins on Open Paths, with Contour Method as Outside Offset. Now, all of the contours are open lines since the contour stretches across sections. I then ordered the Operations into three sets, each set belonging to each section. So, in Inkscape I sectioned my design into three different layers, each with it’s own color, and imported into SheetCam. I am building a job that is an indexed design requiring three sections over 66" (I have a 2x2 table, sorry). I realize this thread is exactly one year old, but the info is relevant to my question so… I usually run the simulation and if it all looks good I post for Mach 3. Then when I go and define the cutting operations I pick the layer that I want the settings to apply to. That way I can see what I’m moving as I do that. I turn off the layer in the layers section of the left panel on the screen. I click or drag & lasso the pieces I want and right-click where the option to move it to a later (& create new layers) pops up. There is a path/line selector in the menubar - I don’t remember what the icon is but the hover help will say. For small holes I also don’t use a lead-in/out. I can order them as I want.įor lines I don’t have a lead-in or out or pierce pause.
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I almost always have these layers: outline cut, large holes, small holes and lines. Sheetcam does it by layer - and by default all your lines are in one layer.īefore I do the cutting definition I put the lines on different layers so they can be different toolpaths. When you click on the plasma one (it’s the top icon on my stack) it opens a window where you define all the parameters for cutting.
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On the lower left corner of the screen there are icons for the different operations (cutting, milking, etc).