Lions and Tigers and Bears oh my

Actually it’s Rams, and Pigs and Turkey oh my…

I’m making some “plinker targets” for my grandkids .22’s

I made the longest cut to date yesterday. I think it was around 2 minutes and 30 seconds in some 1/4 mystery metal.

Everything went well except for on one ram, it hit a “void” and stopped cutting.

I could not figure out how to “start a cut from a given point” to save my life.

I will just have to trace it and “freehand it” with my 'up stairs" plasma machine.

Gotta just draw up some bases, cut’em and weld’em.

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As long as your work zero didn’t change, you can just click on the segment you want to start at on the visualizer. It will direct you to the corresponding line on the g code and you can click run from here or line one something like that.

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@brownfox I tried to do that, but I must not understand what is meant by “clicking on the segment” ?

Gosh, I know this sounds dumb, but do you mean using the mouse to “left click” on the “picture” on the screen of where I want it to start from?

I tried that and nothing happened.

I thought that the “cross hairs” would move to the spot I clicked on, and then I could hit “start” or something, but nothing happened.

Is there some sort of special command I have to give it first?

If you click on the line on the screen, it should pop up a message asking if you want to run from “line” or “loop”. In this case you would select “line”, because you want to start somewhere other than the beginning of that cut loop. It should generate a new program that only shows the lines that are left in the program. Hit start.

I say “should”, because I’ve seen others have issues with the current version of Firecontrol not behaving as it should in this situation.

I’m still running version 20.6 and it works fine.

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Another aspect to consider, your g-code only recognizes to types of lines - straight and curved. It will generate g-code by adding straight / curves as necessary to generate the program. Each transition will be a new line of code. Run from line “should” be able to select the line you’re on / next line and generate new code to continue. Occasionally, if your cut fails in the middle of a long cutting line, Run from Line starts in an area that has already been cut. And the next line is too far from where the cut stopped.

In this case I’ll edit the g-code (if you really want more info on this, PM me) to start where the cut stopped, and continue the line as expected. From that point, the generated g-code should be able to handle things.

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Well I finally got around to finishing those “plinking targets”.

Here is my “flock” after the first coat of paint.

I guess we will see how they hold up. I have no idea what type of metal they are, but I figure 22lr shouldn’t do too much damage.

I gotta learn how to "nest’ things better, but I’m ok with this for a ‘noob’

The square holes are the “base plate” cut outs.

And a special “thanks” to @Wsidr1 for hooking me up with that NRA silhouette file. :beers:
:+1:

If they dont hold up, I will probably order some AR500 plate and have another go at it.

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