Someone asked how to control cutting parameter (e.g. cutting speed, cutting power and laser frequency) in CutLeader, I try to answer it here.

Background: Cutleader can supports any kind of cutting machine (waterjet, plasma and laser), but the features between different machine type and different machine maker are different. For example, when you run a waterjet machine, you may want to control the pierce dwell time. a other example is how to control the laser power for laser machine.

The solution in CutLeader:

We can define condition items in machine configuration, the following is a example of the condition definition.

Item name Data type Item ID
Cutting Speed Fxxxx Integer 10000

You can define the condition items for whole NC program, cutting loops, pierce and end pierce.

After you added condition items in machine configuration, you can set the values of them in the Expert Library (part scheme and sheet scheme) .

The postprocessor can get the values of the items you set in the expert library, and output them in NC file. Because each machine type and module has different NC format, so we need create a postprocessor for you machine and support the condition items.