Disconnects and g-code line number

[helipaddy (Patrick Wills)]

This is a suggestion. If Carbide Motion disconnects mid-job, would there be a way you could save where it got to somewhere eg in a file?
If not is there a way to know where one should restart from?

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Carbide Motion should do this and automatically manage a re-start:

Program Restart

What a great new feature! When surfacing off a plug from an inlay, I can be conservative and leave 10 or 20 thou, Next I set the Z zero 10 thou lower than the previous run, start at the last pass and be done in a fraction of the time! Awesome!!! The only thing that was not intuitive was after restarting and measuring the tool again, the spindle starts, the spindle repositions and just sits there until you click on Start. Anyway, thanks!

If you have trouble with this, let us know and we will look into it with you.

[SirGariff (Gary Clark)]

@WillAdams
@robgrz

Can you give a little more direction on this? I’ve rerun entire projects when I’ve lost connection. Somehow I missed this.

[jtclose (Jim Close)]

I have used this a couple of times. You have to know the approximate line number to restart at.
I use ncviewer to find a line number somewhere before the last cut. I use the z axis value as a guide.

The beta versions of CM ( 641 + ) have the restart capability.

You will have to re zero values if you had a panic stop.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Basically, Carbide Motion keeps track of where it is when cutting a file, and if the cut is interrupted, where it was at.

It then offers the user the chance to restart the file where the cut was interrupted.

Used to be we’d get a couple of e-mails or so per month on support asking how to re-start a project, but since this feature rolled out, that has pretty much ceased, which makes this the best sort of feature.

[SirGariff (Gary Clark)]

So, how do I get CM beta version?

[Woodcrafter (John Matteson)]

Beta versions can be accessed via the download page.

https://carbide3d.com/downloads/

One for Carbide Create.

One for Carbide Motion.

Also, a post about the Carbide Motion 644 beta.

Carbide Motion 644 Beta- Now with Program Restart

We just uploaded a new build that includes program restart to Carbide Motion Beta Downloads On the Run Program pane, you’ll see a new Restart Program button that lets you start the program on almost any line. Here are a few caveats/details: You cannot restart on a line where the parser does not at least have x/y/z set. (Usually the first 10-20 lines of the program) If you restart on a tool change line, CM doesn’t need to do any repositioning moves, it can just start on the tool change and c…

[helipaddy (Patrick Wills)]

After CM gets disconnected, I have to connect the Shapeoko load a file again. There is no restart button until I am running the job. So I first mke sure I am loading the same file as before, then it asks me which line to start from. HOw do I know which line unless CM records it somewhere at the time of disconnect.

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