Converting drawing for Burny CNC Plasma Cutter

[Turbo1zz]

I am learning to use the Burny CNC Plasma Cutter at my school and not a single person has a manual for the unit. I have been able to load the canned shapes and cut out some pieces but I want to load some custom shapes into the cutter. The machine has a floppy drive which I assume is where I would load any drawings into the cnc controller but what format must they be in to get the machine to cut them? I have an AutoCAD drawing that I want to cut on the machine but don't know how to take the AutoCAD drawing and make it usable by the machine. Do I need to convert the drawing to G code? If so I guess I need to learn G code... hahaha

I was able to cut this out and plan on using it for a compact hibachi grill...



Thanks,
Jeffrey Park

[vladdy]

Did a quick search using dogpile, and found that the Burny3 uses standard gcode commands...
an easy shape creator software I found was at http://www.enter.net/~schleinkofer/
and it specifically shows the Burny3 plasma cutter, as well as it's supported G-codes..

enjoy..

[Turbo1zz]

Thanks for the info. I've created a simple g-code for a turbo flange that I want to try and cut out Monday. I saved the G-Code as a .cnc and a .txt file but how do I now get it to the Burny? The unit has a floppy drive but will it read a .cnc file? I really wish I had a manual for this machine as I'd like to cut out some flanges so I can weld together a nice turbo manifold for my car.

Thank you for all the help,
Jeffrey Park

[Al_The_Man]

Get your school to contact Burny for a manual, companies usually give prompt attention to places of learning (potential customers).
There are three or four formats that the Burny can be set to, if it is a Burny three, if it is set to normal WADR it will read in a G code file if set that way, You will need to have a list of the M codes etc. which are in the manual.
Al.

[vladdy]

On that web site address I mentioned before, he has a freeware part creation program. I dl' it, and set it for Burny...
One of the file extensions it creates is .cnc

Just throw it on the disk, and try it... in a 'test' mode first for safety, and to confirm the part...

enjoy..

[porky118]

Is there any other software for the controller. I use Autocad to create drawings and convert them to DXF files which my burny software can read.