Program Restart

[RUSSELL MC]

I have just finished a decorative wall plaque, 22 hours of machining 2,276,974 lines of code. For quite some time I have been editing the code to enable a program restart, but after watching a tutorial made by TJ I thought I give his method a go. I tried four times without success. The SB did not pick up the specified line number, it just wanted to start it seems at the beginning of the program. I am using 3.8.14 control software, control box firmware version 216 and I use Artcam Pro 2013 for my Cad Cam software. Does anyone have any suggestions? I am sure I followed TJ instructions to the letter.

[RUSSELL MC]

Spent some time over the weekend looking at the problem I was having with the restart procedure. I found that I was pressing the Run From Here button before the program had completely loaded. From when the spindle started, it seemed like another couple of minutes before the program completely loaded because it had so many lines of code. I guess I was to impatient. The software allows you to press the Run From Here button before the program has completely loaded, this is a bit of a trap.

[shilala]

I sometimes do the same thing, brother.
I make habit of keeping a post it pad on my control laptop just so I write my line down every time I stop the bot. It's saved me a LOT of messing around on a number of occasions.

[RUSSELL MC]

Scott, I think it was a good lesson learnt. Will not be so impatient in the future.

[JimDav]

My background in Information Technology. My rule of thumb - if anything happens, appears to be hung up, or what ever give it twice as much time as you think it needs and then some more. I admit it can be hard to be patient though. The worst thing one can do is to keep pushing the 'ENTER' button. If the thing is working pushing "ENTER just starts the process over each time. Just my 2 cents.