Cutting error

[drandals]

Half way thru a 5 hour cut in a 2" thick walnut panel and got a "missing command". Does any one have any ideas on how to resume :(:(

[myxpykalix]

do you have a line number close to where it stopped? Do you recall generally the location where it stopped?

I don't have my laptop handy but I think you need to go to
File/GoTo (FG) then i think you get a popup where you input the line number. You need to manually move your router to the location it was when it stopped and Re Z or you will ruin your material.

[drandals]

I did note the line number and marked the location on the material. Will give it a try in the morning. I could start the cut all over but would rather not. Which would you think would be the best option?
Thanks
David

[myxpykalix]

Well try the goto option because you need to make sure your material has not moved because no matter what you do it will not be exact.

I have also had to start from scratch before and it is such a pain to watch it cut air for hours till it gets back to the right spot.

[drandals]

thanks for the help

[oddcoach]

Make sure the tool is right above where it will start. If not the tool just makes a bee line to the start position usually right thru your part

[maxheadroom]

David, forget line number and code.

Make sure the project is securely fastened down, don't move it.

Measure your part. Use this as an example: your part is 48" wide, 52" tall, and you're using a raster strategy, with the raster running in y.

If the file ran from 0/0 (bottom left corner) from left to right, measure from the left side to the point where the job stopped. Assuming it stopped at 24", create a vector the height of the job in your software the same height of the part, and a width of 23 7/8". If nothing else is changed in the set up, the home position will still be the same, and will go straight to the new vector to finish the newly created vector.

Select this new vector, tool path it, and send to the router. At the most, it will take 5 minutes more +- to run the overlap, after that the file should continue as it should.

No need to know where the bit stopped at all.

Fast, easy, fool proof.

What you've done is create a 1/8" overlap from where the router's run, starting 1/8" from where it stopped and continues on and finish the job, hopefully without further problems. If it stops again, select the newly created vector and try a different tool path strategy.


If that doesn't work, delete the tool paths, save the file with a different name, reopen, re tool path and try again. Without fail, short of a mechanical problem, the job can be completed w/o problems.

[drandals]

Sounds good, will give it a try Thanks

[benchmench]

If you are running a recrent version of the Shopbot control software (3.6.x) then

- Assuming the material hasn't moved
- Raise the bit above the material

- In SB3, go to "File > Go To LIne / Single Step".
Click the radio button "setup a restart of this file" and follow the instructions from there.

If you are not running a recent version, you may still be able to open the log file for the cut file (same name as .sbp file) that did not complete. It is in the same directory as your cut file and will have the same name but a .log extension. It lists the last line processed, along with date, time elapsed, etc.

Go back to SB3, click on "File>Go To" (line number)
type in the last line completed from the log file (or that you wrote down when it stopped)

Click "run from here" and execution should continue from where it left off.

Hope this helps!