Spindle Won't Start - Missing Command

[signtist]

Windows 8.1 upgrade........now when I open a part file and hit start....
it's missing the pop up "pause in file after starting router/spindle".
It just start moving the xyz moves! Can't get the spindle spinning!

[Brady Watson]

Make sure you are running the proper post processor in whatever CAM software you are using.

-B

[barrowj]

Sounds like you are using the wrong post processor, the commands that you are missing are:

SO,1,1
Pause 2

What processor are you using?

Joe

[jerry_stanek]

I think it is more something in the Shopbot setup if he is not seeing the start the spindle pop up

[Brady Watson]

I think it is more something in the Shopbot setup if he is not seeing the start the spindle pop up

If there is no SO,1,1 in the post processor, then the msgbox prompting you to start the spindle doesn't show up. My PRT runs a 5hp Colombo and it isn't (by choice) interfaced to the control box. I don't get the pop up msgbox prompting me to turn on the spindle, because those commands are not in the post I use.

-B

[jerry_stanek]

When I changed my PP and it didn't have the speed control the message would pop up.

[adrianm]

The speed control is different from the spindle on/off.

Spindle on off is the SO command on output 1 whereas the speed control is TR and needs the speed control program to be running.

The latest post processors do the spindle on/off via the C6 and C9 commands.

[barrowj]

Adrian,

In looking at the newest custom files, C6 and C9 do not have the SO,1,1 in them so how do they prompt/start the spindle?

The post processors I use for Aspire 4.5 still inserts the SO,1,1 in the cut file.

Joe

[adrianm]

C6 calls the MTCon.sbp (manual tool changing) or ATCon.sbp (auto tool changer) those programs have the SO commands in them.

C7 (not C9, my mistake) does the same sort of calls to the off versions.

They cater for multiple spindles, drills etc. The manual tool change facility is something I use all the time and those files are integral to it.

I've been using the Post Processors with the C6, C7, C9 for a while now. The latest ones come with SB3 in the SBParts folder.

[signtist]

Shopbot fixed the problem in about 3 minuted.
I have to admit, this is why I bought the Shopbot in the first place.
They do stand behind there product better than most tech support!