#CAMBAM CNC TAB SERIES#

Right click the new style and select Paste format.Rename the new style to something meaningful, such as '5mm plate'.Right click the Plasma-mm style, then select New CAM style.Select the System tab at the top of the drawing tree, then expand the CAM Styles folder.

Right click the machining operation, then select Copy.

To make the modified style available to this and other drawings: For example, reduce the Cut Feedrate when cutting thicker plate. To create a new machining style, alter the properties of the profile machining operation to suit your operation. If the default style is customised to suit your most common plasma operations, no further changes may be needed to the machining operations in the drawing. The profile machining operation inherits all its properties from the default (blank named) style in the Plasma-mm style library. Multiple shapes can be selected (insides and outers), and a single profile machining operation inserted to cut them. If the profile is set to Inside the reverse is true. If the profile is set to an Outside cut, then the inside circle will be cut on the Inside of the line and the outer square will be cut on the Outside of the shape. For example, if you select two shapes a circle within a square, then insert a profile operation,ĬamBam will realise that the circle should be cut first. Profile machining operations will automatically detect inside and outside shapes. Plasma hardware does vary, so you should check and customise the plasma post processor to make sure any g-code produced is suitable for your machine. The square can be replaced with your own shapes, then relinked to the machining operation by selecting and dragging the drawing objects in the drawing tree, onto the profile machining operation. This drawing is set to refer to the plasma CAM style library and post processor.Ī 100mm square is included, which is linked to a profile machining operation. To start a plasma drawing, use the File - New From Template menu command, then select the plasma.cb file. Restart CamBam and you are now ready to start working with plasma. To find this location, use the Tools - Browse system folder menu command from within CamBam. These files need to be copied into subfolders of the CamBam system folder. The resource file contains a post processor definition, a CAM style library and a drawing template. Here are some settings and tips we use to drive our own plasma cutter. In the video you will see the greenBull CNC cutting out the parts we have created.CamBam works great with plasma cutters. Now under the 'Machining' tab we will go to 'produce gcode' and ask us where we want to save the gcode file. We will first save the file we have created. Now we are ready to create the file and run it on the machine. Now we apply the final profiles and then press CTRL+T to see the tool paths. We have set this to drill straight down and up, without any spiraling. We set the profile for only a single pass which we have set as drill straight. Now we move to the back piece and create a new part for it so it can be run individually if necessary. The ones with an X in them will not actually rout. We will set the feed rate lower on the roughing to offset this.

If you want to adjust this you need to set the spacing to at least. You will notice that only the finishing is able to pass through the separation lines. We press CTRL+T to generate the tool paths. Now all lines should be joined and we can do a roughing and finishing profile. This is not done in Inventor so we need to do this in CAMBAM. You will notice that the lines are not joined so we need to join and close the lines. We pick up on part 10 by setting the profile in CAMBAM for roughing and finishing.

#CAMBAM CNC TAB SERIES#

In the 10th and final part of the series we will be showing the final result from design to fabrication on the CNC machine.

Cambam cnc tab