I had a belt slip yesterday during cutting, this caused the router to go awol, i fixed the slipping belt issue however it has raised allot of concern. Is there any way of the error such as this being detected and activating an estop automatically? Say monitoring the current through the motors and have any spikes caused by excessive resistance activate an estop. Also can you help, what is the best way to resume the job in such event? (Mach 3) once the machine has been fixed and axis re calibrated that is. Obviously mach 3 will need re zeroing but is there any way to continue from just before where the job ran into trouble?.. this particular job has 18,000 lines of gcode so scrolling through to find the last position would be horrendous. thanks.
Whilst nothing is ever really impossible I don't see any way by which this can be done. Basically the motor's are working just as they should and they have no knowledge of a belt slip - same story regarding the controller. Again, Mach3 would have no knowledge of a belt slip so your only recourse is to scroll through the code to a suitable position then invoke Run from Here (after referencing all axes, of course). Tweakie.
As I expected, thanks tweakie. If only Mach 3 had a history, where you could see where the estop was initiated. Be so much easier to find the position in the code.
Hi, mach3 has a function called "run from here". After refixing your belt, zero your axis/es again and then "slide/ scroll " down your g-code using your mouse in combination with your up/down arrows on keyboard. On the screen you will see a white dot/line move. That is exact whre your router would mill at that line of code. Just find a line that will be close bofore your mishap... Done so today after an e-stop in line 402 000 ( no kidding). I can not make out where the e- stop happened on the finished part... hope that helps.
