Half the time, when I start a milling job on my shapeoko pro XXL, I forget to set my zero, tighten my collet, clamp down my work, etc. It would be great to be able to stop the machine during a job, but not have it home and re-initialize. This homing sequence wastes a minute or so. If the machine has not cut into the part yet, it is highly unlikely that it has skipped steps, so a stop with no home feature would be very helpful
Pause should allow you to do all of the things you mentioned except setting zero.
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The next update may address those issues, fingers crossed.
Check out the CM V6 beta thread. That should be in there.
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Rob,
What did I fudge up?
Loaded new CM beta
Selected what I think was right
XXL PRO
ZPlus
It wants to send Z down on initialization
Are any of the homing switches stuck on?
What colour is the homing switch showing?
Do you have a BitZero? What colour is it showing? Where is the groundlead?
āXā is red. āZā is down ā Xā at right.back corner. Do not have magnet near bit zero, not allowing cross connect. Learned my lesson on that. Will have to move āXā away from sensor to see if that helps. Do not see an option to reset machine configuration
Move so āXā is not on. No change
Turned off CM, Reloaded. Found button to setup. Everything is fine. Sorry for the false alarm
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