Re: [Emc-users] restart in the middle of a program

2008-03-06 Thread John Thornton
All you have to do is hit the home button... John On 5 Mar 2008 at 19:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Can we look at adding something to the scenario? How about a re-home due to lost axis motor steps on an open loop system? How can we restart in the middle after an ESTOP? I

Re: [Emc-users] restart in the middle of a program

2008-03-06 Thread Jon Elson
Dale Ertley wrote: Hello All, Can we look at adding something to the scenario? How about a re-home due to lost axis motor steps on an open loop system? How can we restart in the middle after an ESTOP? I don't think this makes any difference to the restart in middle of G-code program. You

[Emc-users] restart in the middle of a program

2008-03-05 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Gentlemen, Does anyone have a procedure for starting (correctly) in the middle of a program? thanks Stuart - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008.

Re: [Emc-users] restart in the middle of a program

2008-03-05 Thread Jon Elson
Stuart Stevenson wrote: Gentlemen, Does anyone have a procedure for starting (correctly) in the middle of a program? I don't know if this bug has been fixed, but on the versions I have, the spindle will not atart if you do this! Anyway, you use the slider bar on the preview window to move

Re: [Emc-users] restart in the middle of a program

2008-03-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Gentlemen, Does anyone have a procedure for starting (correctly) in the middle of a program? thanks Stuart About the only way I've been able to bypass steps that have already been done, is to set 2 identical vars for the starting location

Re: [Emc-users] restart in the middle of a program

2008-03-05 Thread Jim Coleman
I never realised this was something EMC had trouble with. guess there'll be alot of stuff I'll find out after i get a machine actually running with it. At work, we number each section of the program that has each tool, N1 for t1, N2, etc... then if we have a tool break or whatever we go to that

Re: [Emc-users] restart in the middle of a program

2008-03-05 Thread Dave Engvall
Hi all, I can't speak for how axis handles restart but with tkemc in is in the editor window. So bring up the editor and at the bottom of the editor window is a button for restart. Place your cursor to the left of the line you want to restart on ... click on the restart button ... save

Re: [Emc-users] restart in the middle of a program

2008-03-05 Thread Jon Elson
Kenneth Lerman wrote: There's been a bunch of recent email on the list about restart in the middle of a program. Has there been a feature request for (a decent way to do) this? I believe I entered a bug report about 6 months ago when I first ran into it. Does anyone want to put together

Re: [Emc-users] restart in the middle of a program

2008-03-05 Thread Dale Ertley
Hello All, Can we look at adding something to the scenario? How about a re-home due to lost axis motor steps on an open loop system? How can we restart in the middle after an ESTOP? I can't see any need for a reboot of the computer system unless we loose electric power. Thank you Dale

Re: [Emc-users] restart in the middle of a program

2008-03-05 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Dale Ertley wrote: Hello All, Can we look at adding something to the scenario? How about a re-home due to lost axis motor steps on an open loop system? How can we restart in the middle after an ESTOP? I can't see any need for a reboot of the computer system unless we loose electric power.

[Emc-users] restart in the middle of a program

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Morley
When I used an old Okuma lathe , we always restarted on a G0 rapid line and set the tool turret to the appropriate tool number by hand. It got a little more complicated when using Okuma's Auto Program Mode ( but it would change the tool turret to the right tool automatically) It was understood