Lightburn for Plasma

[Demus (Joe)]

I find a lot of posts but no result.
Is there still going to be a plasma addition to LB?
Or has that been abandoned?

[parsec (FerAS)]

I believe this is a successful case:

Update on plasma use case success, albeit post processing gcode

This thread is related to Feature Request: per-cut focus touch off for plasma cutting w/THC I have finally completed my Mill Right Mega V Plasma build today (yesterday) and spent the day running the system through some paces. I experimented a lot with the probe code needed to touch off the torch to the cut surface in order to set the Initial Torch Height or sometimes called the Pierce Height. The gcode process involves saving my LB generated gcode to a file and post processing the file using …

[Demus (Joe)]

Yeah, I saw that one. He’s using Sheetcam for the CAM part.
There’s another thread where Oz was saying it will be incorporated into LB.
Moreso asking about that.

[bLouChip (Lou Cipriano)]

See the last post again from the above reference thread, it has a link to the 100% LB solution.

@bLouChip

What follows are artifacts for an alternative 100% LB solution of CAD/CAM for the CNC grbl plasma table process. I only use this process for testing and sharing purposes as LB continues to develop Custom GCode device for non-laser CNC processes.

Custom GCode for plasma v1.7 bLouChip.lbdev (6.0 KB)
p- sq cir example LB xmpl.lbrn2 (9.5 KB)
p- sq cir example LB xmpl.gc (8.6 KB)
LinuxCNC “G-Code” Quick Reference

[Demus (Joe)]

Again, I saw that. Really just asking when, and if, Lightburn will add it.
Doesn’t seem to be any progress so I may just go with Sheetcam and your PP.

[Dskall (D Kallenberger)]

I don’t think Lightburn has any plans to add plasma cutters.

[Demus (Joe)]

And you got this info from who?
Again, there’s a long thread with the LB owner saying it would happen.

[Dskall (D Kallenberger)]

Only the discussions I have read.
I suspect it will be added later to their CNC software, but not in Lightburn.

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

We do want to add support for Plasma cutters and have been moving in that direction, adding features and internal tooling along the path. These efforts will first be seen with the release of our CNC / Spindle / Router product known as MillMage. We are currently in limited beta with this product. Follow-on products, which leverage this work, are on our roadmap, but will take some time.