Program hung part way through

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Program hung part way through

Post by suen » Thu 14 Apr , 2011 14:37 pm

Part way through running a program on a microrouter compact it just hung i.e. the program stopped incrementing and the machine stopped moving, although the spindle was still operating. I don't think the program was the fault as it was an imported gerber file for producing a pcb, converted to a fanuc file. What could cause this and how could the program be restarted at the appropriate point as it was part way through a block operation?

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Re: Program hung part way through

Post by Denford Admin » Fri 15 Apr , 2011 9:29 am

If all axes have just stopped it could be a fuse, or the stepper drive ribbon cable come loose.
If it's working again now then it could have be a USB data fault. Older machines should be updated to the latest version or VR Milling 5 and then the firmware upgraded with easy upgrader.

You can restart a program with block restart, see here:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2552

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