Pause the program and stop the spindle in the middle of the program.

Hi guys,

When milling/drilling aluminium, it sometimes happens that the mill or drill gets clogged up so I need to stop, clean the mill or drill and then start again.
I can do feedhold, but the spindle is still running. Is there a way to pause the program in a way that turns off the spindle, then when I resume, to continue from where it was.
I think, Run from line would also help, but its not working.

Thanks,
Vasi

if you are on AXIS GUI
just slide the Spindleoverride to Zero
spindle will stop
and then get it back to 100Percent

you could also connect halui.program.is-paused to motion.spindle-inhibit

Names change a bit depending on what version of linuxcnc you are using.

Chris

slightly off topic but related, A fun addition I made to our Gui.

Added a button that when you pause a program it appears. Saves the current position, current spindle speed, does a safe z move, switches to manual mode so you can jog.

Then on resume issues an MDI command to the xy hold state, turns the spindle back on to the spindle hold state, a z mdi command and finally starts from line on the held line. The only caveat is it doesn't work well with arc moves, so I just have it go back to the start of the arc (the end of the previous move) and start from line

satiowadahc wrote:

slightly off topic but related, A fun addition I made to our Gui.

Added a button that when you pause a program it appears. Saves the current position, current spindle speed, does a safe z move, switches to manual mode so you can jog.

 

satiowadahc hasn't been on the forum in a couple of years.  Anyone know what UI they were talking about?

I'd love to have exactly that feature.  The other day I was pretty sure my vacuum had clogged, since the pockets I was carving were completely full of sawdust about 3/4 of the way through the job.  If I could have, I'd have paused, done some hand vacuuming, and then kept going.  Other times I've thought, "sure wish I could recheck the positioning of that clamp", sometime after the job has started.