rotary plasma diy design

[mcmental]

hi there, has anyone designed their own rotary axis for their plasma?
i have a 4 axis candcnc system and im interested in being able to use round and square tube but unsure on the best way to rotate the tube etc.
thanks
chris

[acourtjester]

There are several designs you can copy, one posted here in another category (tips and tricks). Here is one I did years ago very simple.


here is one Joe Jones built too.

[mcmental]

There are several designs you can copy, one posted here in another category (tips and tricks). Here is one I did years ago very simple.


here is one Joe Jones built too.

thanks for that i'll have a look at those tomorrow.

[tcaudle]

To do square tube you need (on a dual drive gantry setup) 5 motors (4 independent axis ) We have offered the option of a 5th controlled axis on most of a controllers for years. SheetCAm Rotary Plasma plugin supports round, square/rectangle continuous cutting and also I beam (never tried that though). It uses torch height and all of the plasma automation that is available on flat cutting

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You don't have to stop and spend a bunch of time to reconfigure from flat cutting to rotary . You can cut down the length of your table and conversion back to flat cutting is a 30 second reload of a different configuration . Rotary also supports plate marker as well.

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We also offer another SheetCAM plugin called Pipefit that does the design of various types of pipe jpints that display in 3D and will run in 3D simulation and then transfor to 2D for layout . It allows you to do multiple cuts and to joint several pipe sizes and various angles and cut them in one job.

[Deezl Smoke]

To do square tube you need (on a dual drive gantry setup) 5 motors (4 independent axis ) We have offered the option of a 5th controlled axis on most of a controllers for years. SheetCAm Rotary Plasma plugin supports round, square/rectangle continuous cutting and also I beam (never tried that though). It uses torch height and all of the plasma automation that is available on flat cutting

Unsaved Image 1.png

You don't have to stop and spend a bunch of time to reconfigure from flat cutting to rotary . You can cut down the length of your table and conversion back to flat cutting is a 30 second reload of a different configuration . Rotary also supports plate marker as well.
SheetCAMScreenShot.png


We also offer another SheetCAM plugin called Pipefit that does the design of various types of pipe jpints that display in 3D and will run in 3D simulation and then transfor to 2D for layout . It allows you to do multiple cuts and to joint several pipe sizes and various angles and cut them in one job.

Wow. I had no clue. Thank you for that info.