
I have some leftover plasma cut parts from a local company I use for most of my raw steel purchases and the parts I cut on my Crossfire are better than theirs up to 1/4", haven’t moved to thicker steel yet. I am getting parts with cut quality about as good as I could ever expect.

(I have been using Fusion360 and Inkscape CAD). I’m using the Crossfire 2x2 and Primeweld Cut60 mainly 50A tips bought from Amazon, designing in ViaCad 2D, sending to Sheetcam, cutting with Mach3. Mach3/Warp9 Hardware LightBurn Hardware Compatibility fyshious (Douglas Heritage) March 13, 2021, 1:59am 1 I have a self built CNC that uses MACH3 CAM and a Warp9 G-Code controller that works well with both router and laser and now I want to try the Lightburn software to see if it’s any better.

There are good tutorials on youtube for both Mach3 and Sheetcam.Īs for the shims, ideally the 1/16" shim should be the better cut setting, but I find in all my cutting that the 1/8" shim does the job correctly for me time after time. In the same fashion, Sheetcam is not pretty either, but it works. Everything has a learning curve and it takes time to understand what parts of any software will accomplish the needed tasks.

In the industrial world, software is not “Apple computers” pretty, but it works. Mach3 has been used worldwide for plasma, laser, router systems for a long time.
