My request for a Xmas present was a plasma cutter. Things got busy and milady never had time to shop. So I just got this little one today.
Karl
I'm finishing up building a small one currently. Nominal 2' x 3' cutting area, fully enclosed, water table, powered by a Hypertherm Powermax
1000, controls from cancnc.com and Mach3 software.
That would be
I just came back from the camsoft forum on CNCzone. Spend most of my NG time there now. I'll be using camsoft because I'm so familiar with it. Now, I have no idea how the torch height control units should work. Plus I've never touched a plasma cutter.
Karl
Couldn't help you there. From what I've seen, outside of some of the commercial plasma tables with their own software, Mach3 is by far the most popular control software, used on a number of commercial tables, nearly all DIY tables and most retrofits of older commercial tables.
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