I tried to setup “hello world” test and ran into a few issues.
I did the initial setup, positioned my pen, zero’d out the coordinates, downloaded the logo file and hit run.
After a few seconds I realized the pen wasn’t touching the paper. BUT, then I couldn’t figure out how to stop or cancel the job. I finally got it to stop, don’t remember how. Then, I wanted to lower the pen, but the program wouldn’t let me go back to adjust the height of the pen.
Did I miss something? I literally had to quit the app and started over. There must be a way to go back to realign/reset the pen, yes? Or at least cancel the project.
Don’t worry about forgetting to zero. The first endmill I crashed was my Carbide3d marker.
My guess what happened: you hit the pause button which pauses feed and raises spindle, but doesn’t let you do anything else…yet…and that’s where you tried going to jog, but I don’t think Carbide Motion likes that, so your program froze up and you had to crush it and reopen. You shouldn’t/can’t change your zero after a toolpath has started, so the only option is to re-zero and restart job.
There’s a pause button in Carbide Motion, after you’ve paused a job, you can click the yellow stop button or green start and resume. If your job has started and you need to abort mission(stop button) you have to go back to square 1.
I assume that there’s logic behind it…
“if your job was going poorly enough that you had to stop it halfway through, maybe we should go find home,check against your limit switches and Start from scratch”
The other option would be to just let the job run mid air (hello world is a short one) and admire the machine as it moves around. Then once job is completed, re-zero it and start the job again.
Good luck
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