Escape from running job

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Is there a way to escape a project in the middle in Carbide Motion?

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There’s the Pause button, and newer versions have a Stop button:

https://carbide3d.com/carbidemotion/beta

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If you hit pause the router turns off (with BitRunner) and retracts. If you then hit stop the job ends and the router returns to home position. If you hit pause when you are ready hit start and the job continues but if you hit stop the job ends and you have to initialize to start over. You can run the job again with all your zero’s still intact.

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So to be clear, if I hit pause then if will lift off the project and return to my O position when I hit run?

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Yes, that’s what the Pause functionality is intended for.

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Thank you. I’m obviously very new. I appreciate your comments

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One correction. If you are running and hit pause the router will stop moving forward and retract and wait. When you hit start the router will lower and start cutting exactly where it paused and not at 0 (origin).

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Ok. Is there a way to just restart the operation of do I have to start totally over?

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You would need to edit the G-Code file to resume at a safe point before the point where the cutting stopped.

To do this:

  • note what line the machine is currently sending (or determine where it was by measuring the deepest area correctly cut)
  • pause, then stop the job and shut things down
  • open up the G-Code file in a text editor
  • identify the preamble and copy it — see GRBL G-code definitions for the details of the codes
  • go to the line # noted above
  • scroll up from there until you find a move down from safety height
  • delete everything from the line above that line to the beginning of the file
  • paste in the preamble at the beginning
  • save under a new name
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