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.
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
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.
