I’d like to see the mirror function.
I know I can just cut two parts and flip one over, but we all know there is only one good side of a plasma cut part.
There are times when I can’t fit a part by rotating it, but it would fit if I could mirror it
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That is what I meant. Thanks!
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Not sure what this means
Not sure what this means?
Larger buttons where?
not sure what this means
and again not sure what this means?
Hmmmmm maybe I need more schooling!
I guess I could go back and re read all the requests but I am too lazy.
#7 and 3# are the only two I guess I care about, cause if I dont know what the others are I must not really care! 
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I didn’t come up with any of them. I took all of them from suggestions people had made in this thread. All I did was rate all the ideas in the list. I could have stopped at 5 or 6. I have no need for the rest.
6 was suggested by @holla2040, when you click close it just asks you if you are sure you want to do that. He has unintentionally closed fire control in the middle of the cut. More likely to happen if you are using touch screen.
8 is an additional axis that apparently would be useful if you added a chuck to spin a tube.
9 see above.
10-11 I didn’t understand either (mentioned in my post) they were listed in the OP
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So like if you went to minimize fire control and hit close by mistake?
I could see this if someone had a lap top and have other programs running. I never run anything but fire control so that would never happen for me.
7 and 3 would get my vote
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Yes. Instead of closing immediately a pop up would appear asking you to confirm you wanted to close FC
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The edit button you are talking about is the save button. The refresh, save and load are all buttons right next to each other. It would be nice if the save was else in the program. I’ve accidentally push the wrong one and saved/ over written files twice. I keep a backup on a flash drive
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I use scale, rotate, patterning, change speed for dry runs, etc. A lot. I’d like to see a “mirror” or " flip" function. I have to go back into Fusion to do this now. Rotate sometimes doesn’t solve a nesting need when parts are asymmetric. Edit: I now see where ds690 already asked for this.
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This one may be to far out there for this software. What about being able to create a nest, then being able to rotate the individual pieces and have the software adjust the spacing. Example, say you cut 10 triangles 6x6 . With the current software you would have to do two rows or do it manually. I think most of us are already doing that now. It would be nice to be able it mirror nested parts as well.
Most of these nesting, flipping, mirror, rotate, etc options are available to do in just a couple seconds in sheetcam. If you’re nesting parts, sheetcam is really worth the upgrade.
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Unfortunately I don’t think #8 is possible with the current board. It would be possible with the OG crossfire board because they had more outputs since it was just a generic board. Now that their boards are custom made they don’t have the additional outputs.
One more reason why I’m getting closer and closer to converting my table to myplasm every day
Just thought of another simple feature. Fire control already has the option to ignore certain parts of the gcode like the torch on command for dry runs. Would be cool to have an option that only ran your pierces. Then you could run through and pierce your holes in thick steel with old consumables, swap to fresh ones, then keep cutting with edge starts. The only other way this is possible is with a custom post processor from sheetcam.
I know you are asking for the feature of “pecking” the holes but there are many solutions that can be done in the CAM operation to accomplish this. I see you already have a response from Tom about SheetCAM which is pretty slick.
In Fusion you can run a separate tool path that will do just that but since you use SheetCAM no need to go into it. It really is much more complicated than what happens in SheetCAM.
Here is a simple example if all of the holes are the same size:
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