Yay, metric G-code! Thanks alot!G61 will also improve things. I have manually added that one alot lately... Great work. Will test the metric stuff right away!

 

As always the work involved has me speechless... but if I have to beg, send money or bake a few cakes..... I will do what ever it takes, to never have to manually place another "TAB" on my phlat lines. Please programmers let auto tabbing be in the next phlatscript
Just busten your chops, nice job on the new script THANK YOU!!!

and Thanks again guyz!!
John

 

Autotabs would be nice if the program knew where I wanted them. I'll bet we'll spend nearly as much time removing unnecessary tabs as we do now, placing the necessary ones.
After all, the programming logic involved to decide if a cutout is so small it will become a dropout, if two pieces are so close that they need additional tabs to support the remaining cutaway piece, whether the majority of a particular portion of a curve or line is in the X or Y direction, related to the cutting table, etc. will be fairly extensive. That would be a lot of work for Kwok (or anybody else) to take up.

That said, Thank You Kwok and all the Beta testers for producing another fine revision to an already excellent plugin! Fantastic work!

 

Agreed Dennis, I think what would be even more effective is, if there was any way to tell the tab tool to utilize the appropriate amount of segments of any line/curve when assigning a specific length to the tab! In other words... say if you assign .2500" for your tab length in the parameters box, and when you hover over the inside or outside phlatlines mainly on a curve, could it assume the connecting line segments until it is exactly .2500".
Right now,say if we have a curve with 75 segments to get a smooth curve edge, the segments may be only .0625" and when we hover the tab tool, it only consumes one given line, so then we have to zoom in and connect tabs manually until we get the tab length desired! Just food for thought and I know Kwok has already thought of this for sure and most likely because of the immense amount of programming or non compatibility this may not even be doable,once again I am extremely grateful for the hard work and time all of you have put into this script to make our lives easier and wanted to Thank you again....
YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!!!

John

 

Colleagues of the forum;
I'm partially to translate the new version of Phlatscript to Portuguese (the output gcode, Parameters and Window buttons).
Lack translate the buttons OK, Cancel and Restore Defaults "in the window of the parameters.
In Which file are they?
I appreciate the information.
Hugs.

 

They are in a folder named html under the filename setParamsWebDialog.html

 

Flashsolutions;

Thank you very much for the tip.
I searched in all files "rb"
Html thought that were only help files.

Hugs ...

 

That's a good idea. If there is interest, I'll be willing to make a version in German, Spanish and Hebrew.

 

To whom it may concern, Annex Phlatscript version in Portuguese.

Portuguese version of the phlatscript moved to here:
viewtopic.php?f=98&t=2315

 

Hi marcomartim, could you please make sure to include the license files when you distribute the phlatscript. Thanks. I've made a new tread to put all the foreign language versions. I've deleted your posted copy and replaced it with a new one with the license files included.

-Kwok

 

Firstly another big thankyou to everyone involved with the PS. It's great to have a metric option in this new release.

I have a query about the 'Plunge Rate' option in the Parameters dialogue box.
I was experimenting cutting some 1mm thick fibreglass board yesterday with a 1mm diameter bit. I usually set all the feedrates manually to around 4ipm when cutting harder materials, but I thought i'd experiment with the Phlatscript settings so that I could speed up the travelling moves.
I set my feedrate to 10ipm and my plunge rate to 1ipm. These speeds worked well, the bit plunged into the material really slowly and didn't lift the material like it sometimes does, normal cuts were fine at 10ipm and travelling moves were super-fast.
The problem I found was with the tabbing. The negative Z moves (plunges at the end of each tab) were at 10ipm which caused the material to lift and eventually broke my cutting bit.
I manually edited the gcode and added 'F1' after each negative Z move and then added an F10 on the following line of code. This worked a treat and the second attempt cut really nicely.
It's quite tedious to do this manually so I was wondering if this might be something to incorporate into the Phlatscript, especially as I can imagine more people experimenting with cutting harder materials on the new ///'s ?

Si.

 

Thanks, Si for the report. Sounds like a bug. I will have a look at it later. If I can figure it out, I will post a mod so people can try it out right away.

-Kwok

 

Thanks for looking into this Kwok. I wasn't sure if it was a deliberate feature or not, I tried a couple of other versions of the Phlatscript and got identical results.

Si.

 

I generated some gcode with a tab and it looks like regular tabs don't even use the plunge feed rate. That's not good. It's buried in the code, so it going to take some time to figure out. But it will be looked into.

-Kwok

 

kyyu;

When I sent the translation missed a file:
PHLATSCRIPT INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
I sent now, please include in zipfile.

I took the liberty to include my email in the Portuguese version because I'm the user some time and can help any user that needs

Hugs Attached files PhlatScripT Instalação e Instruções.pdf (50.6 KB)Â

 

marcomartim, I've updated the zip file. Thanks.

 

WOOHOO G61 is included!!!...Been adding it manually since the beginning. BIG shout out to the programmers for putting this in!!

This goes to show requests for additions are always considered!!

Tim
AG4RZ

 

does the phlat script only work with the pro versions?

 

No, it will work equally well with the free version SKP 7!! Hope this helps!!

John

 

I have SKU8 on my computer but I can't seem to get it to work I went into window/prefrences and could not see any options for phlatscript? could be I just don't know what I am doing but I directed the install to where the directions said.

 

Does it show up in Window/Preferences/Extensions? Extension is called "Phlatboyz Tools".
If that's there, then you probably just need to show the toolbar: View/Toolbars/Phlatboyz