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For robotic plasma cutting, tools are defined and loaded for each cut height that will be used.

Refrerence document for Tool & Speed parameter page specific to Plasma Cutting.

  • Selected tool naming elicitation

  • Short explanation regarding the impossibility of selecting the user tool (auto-generated by the module based on cut chart entry selected)

  • Parameter descriptions

Selected tool (for plasma cutting)

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The naming convention for plasma cutting tools is:

{current in A} Hypertherm {material type} - {kerf diameter in mm} {cut height in mm}

For example, a plasma tool name for Mild Steel 130 Amp O2/Air with a Kerf diameter of 2.3 mm and Cut Height of 6.6 mm would appear as:

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In Robotmaster for plasma cutting, Kerf diameter (kerf width) is used for tool diameter and cut height is used as tool length.

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For plasma operations, Selected tool, Linear speed, and Set speed from selected tool cannot be edited on the Tool and Speeds page. This information is automatically set based on Cut chart entry.

However, you You can override these the following speeds for a plasma operation:

Approach speed

Linear speed in mm/s on the approach to the path, along the tool axis control vector. Normally, this is a joint motion.

Retract speed

Linear speed in mm/s on the retract from the path, along the tool axis control vector. Normally, this is a joint motion.

Entry/exit speed

Linear speed in mm/s on the entry or exit paths leading into or out from the toolpath.