In the course of preparing a new spoilboard, I’ve had a couple of issues - of my own making - but this one has got me perplexed.
Mid-project (ish) it stopped. The router is still spinning in the hole it’s cutting, but it won’t go up, down, left or right. It just sits there.
What did I do to cause this? Nothing. I was sat on a stool reading my Kindle, but keeping an eye on things.
I used the original, exported *.nc file after the “Import from CC to CM” and “Edit the file” fiascos, and did a lot of air-cutting before it got to the uncut part of the project.
This is the screenshot from CM:
I used the feed-hold button and that worked, raising and stopping the router, and return control to CM, but the Start, Pause and Stop buttons are not enabled. And I’ve pressed the feed-hold button a few times to check. There is no ‘Busy’ indicator showing.
This is where it stopped (notice the green LED on the BitRunner):
…with a closeup…
My guess is, CM has crashed - but it’s showing up normally in the Force Quit window, so it appears to be OK, at least according to the iMac.
But I don’t have any control over the machine (Terminator mode?) unless, I suppose, I turn it off and back on gain - and then I’ll have to run this project again, which I’d be really fed up about. I confess the air was blue in the workshop (shed) when this happened, but it’s not obvious in the photo!
For the moment I’ve left it in Pause mode (but still not controillable from CM) but I would appreciate some guidance on what to do next, please?
Thank you.