Many years of cutting with Plasma in the heat, the cold, the dust and the smoke has made me glad I can do my design and CAM work in the comfort of my office or on my laptop at home. I find the argument of the advantages of having everything in one application (CAD?CAM?COntrol) interesting. You can add tool parameters, job parameters or parameters in each Opertation. One of the major strengths of SheetCAM is that the Post Processor is a language (LUA) that you can do anything you want, Even more compelling is the fact SheetCAM lets you define parameters in the POST (stuff you add) and it passes them back to the application for user display and selection. That may work for some with simple THCs like the Promo or something that has a total stand alone THC that operates autonomous from the control software. So any Plasma implementation will be really basic.
I wrote a POST for use with Aspire or VCarve for routing since there are no special codes or moves. So operations like turning the THC on/off at strategic times or setting the target volts or cut current are not possible other than to just hard code it in a function. There is no logic code allowed (IF-FOR-NEXT) no math functions and no way to add an internal variable to use it. You cannot add any parameters to tools and you have to hard code any parameter they do not pass to the post. Yes, the POST is the key BUT Vetric Posts are just batch scripting files and only let you use their internal variables and tools.
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