like it says, when i finish with the “Cut 2d profile” setup- where i have chosen plasma cutter as my cutting tool of choice (and even set a plasma cutter in the first “setup” screen), when i run the simulation it shows arrow directions around the cutter head indicating a rotary tool to do the cutout. i even went back to much earlier setups/things i have cut out and those also show a rotary tool now, but before they would definately show a plasma cutter.
should i be concerned about this? will it affect my cuts and quality?
Post your f3d file we can take a look at the settings you have.
Sometimes the simulation looks odd depending on what plane the tool is cutting at. Quite a few combinations of settings to give you different appearances too, maybe it’s one of those
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I suspect you have “Show Spindle” selected under View in the Simulation tab. I just enabled it in a known good file, and it does show spindle rotation, even though the tool is a plasma. It doesn’t appear to effect anything other than the simulation.
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yep, it was selected. i turned it off and now at least the arrows are gone. the “shadow” of the tool head is still the rotary cutter, but i just ran a dozen cuts just now with the same file and it cut just fine. I’d like to know (i’m sure ill figure it out someday) what i changed to make this happen. seems only to impact the “simulate with machine” for now… and it only seems to have affected a few files. many of my other ones show the correct “plasma cutter” head, and all the files have the same “plasma cutter” selected under Tools.
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Or you have your tool nozzle diameter set to 1" set it to the same as the kerf width if it is and try again .
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