Upgraded to a Shapeoko 5 pro with a VDF spindle and upgraded my CM to 640. My older CM version would lift the spindle on Pause and stop, and this new version that does not happen. Don’t know if its just a “me” thing I missed or this is a feature now. Don’t mind it but the spindle keeps going and messes up the cut. I was using fusion 360 a lot before and this time I am running Carbide Create for this project. Don’t know if that is the issue.
On that note, the old version with my dewalt router and the bitrunner, the spindle would stop on pause as well, with the VDF it does not.
Any help or direction to tune this in would be appreciated.
I was surprised (not in a good way) to find this out. Fortunately no blood was spilled. With the spindle it’s quiet enough that you can’t hear that it’s running over the sound of the vacuum. The most common reason I need to pause a job is because something has gone awry with Sweepy-- clogged hose, mispositioned, or the *^#$% screws falling out yet again. Having the spindle not stop during a pause impresses me as a very serious and unnecessary safety risk. It’s way too easy to not remember that it’s spinning after you hit pause.
In two decades of working with lab robots that had to run 24/7 unattended doing very similar x-y-z motions I had a screw work loose and fall out maybe once, perhaps the C3D engineers should have a chat with some of the engineers who work on those machines about how to better retain fasteners. None of my other woodworking tools ever lose a screw and many of them vibrate a heck of a lot more.
Not just the spindle action, but what about what happens to the z-axis. I stopped once and the z-axis stayed put. OK, but what happens if I then want to end the job and bring the machine to the home position? Will it go in a straight line with the z-axis staying where it is and taking out everything in it’s path? It would be nice if there was documentation as to what happens with the axes on different pause, stop or error conditions.
This is a result of a change made in the design for the 5. Prior machines still raise the spindle on pause regardless of the CM version. At least as of the latest one I have for the Pi.