Hi mini CNC experts, I stopped the job on the way. When I play again it starts from the very beginning. Is there a way to start from where it stopped last ?
Also I stopped it as I believe the speed might not be right (I have used all the presetting for T24) but as it got a little bit smoky while carving the curves (but no fire!) Is there a setting I can change to avoid this smoking in the future?
Last question if I indeed have to change the speed settings does it mean the job can’t be carried from where it stopped?
If you need to make a speed adjustment you can use the speed override slider mid-job, smoke sounds like the feed rate might be a bit low - maybe set it to 120% feed override and see if that clears it up
Afaik there isn’t a simple way to continue from a specific point in time. I would need to do some research but there is a way to do this via a gcode command.
I cannot tell though it that’s safe and which considerations are important when doing that. E.g. the stock shouldn’t have moved etc
Editing the gcode is the approach I’ve taken in the past but you have to be able to read the instructions and preserve some of the setup code at the beginning, so a bit of an advanced operation.
https://ncviewer.com/ is a great visualizer
I’ve also written a bit of a gcode learning tool here: https://kyle-barker.com/gcode/ If you hover over lines, it will tell you the state of the machine as well as decode the instructions
