A couple Questions on the Elite usage

Machines (Elite Series)
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I have a couple questions since upgrading to the Elite

1st (i figured this one out)

Second Question, On my buildbotics machine I could edit the gcode and put M0 command to halt the machine and spit a message and decide if I wanted to take another pass, tried that with the Masso and its a no go, It displays the message but just keeps on going until the end. What is the command I need to put into Masso GCode so it will pause in its position? As I use this method to surface in very thin increments.

Lastly for now, in the middle of a cut there is no pause button on the screen? What button = pause?

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Make sure you’re using M(zero) instead of letter O.

In the middle of a cut…

you can press feed hold,
spindle stop,
jog the spindle out of the way if needed,
then spindle start,
cycle start,

the machine will rapid to last XY location and pause,
hit cycle start again and the machine will move to the last Z height and pause,
hit cycle start once more and it resumes the cut.

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I am in fact using M0 here is an excerpt from surfacing the spoil board

G1Y31.3600
G1X4.0053
G1Y0.6400
G1X3.3053
G1Y31.3600
G1X2.6053
G1Y0.6400
G1X1.9053
G1Y31.3600
G1X1.2053
G1Y0.6400
G0Z0.2000
M0(MSG, Click 'Continue' when the spindle is up to speed)
G0X0.5000Y0.5000
G1Z-0.0400F7.0
G1X47.5000F150.0
G1Y31.5000
G1X0.5000
G1Y0.5000
G0Z0.2000
G0X46.7053Y0.6400

That was copied directly from the .ngc file, it will display that message there in the parentheses but it just keeps cutting away and doesn’t stop and wait, is there another gcode command that works with masso?

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stand by, I’ll run that on my machine and see what I get

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ok check it out…

I tried a few things and found that if I delete the “msg,” from the parentheses, the machine will stop, but I don’t get a message displayed on screen. When I add the “msg” my machine does the same as yours. Interesting. I never noticed this because I always just use a M0 without a comment in parentheses since I already know why the machine is stopping. Hope this helps.

edit…

If you put MSG before the M0 the message will be displayed and the machine will stop the way you wanted it to.

example…

G1 X10. F100.
MSG move clamps
M0
and so on

There must be a space after MSG and don’t use parentheses.

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Thank you Sir! Much appreciated.

I only have one other question for the time being that is I read somewhere you could save up to 4 different positions with the Masso, I have holes drilled in my spoilboard basically 4 L’s and i use dowels to center my pieces in those 4 places, was wondering if there was a way to save those exact positions so I could quickly set to position 1 or 4 and just touch probe the height. ?

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If I understand your question, you’re talking about using multiple work offsets?

You can use G54 thru G59 for 6 different parts.

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Thanks again, i think thats exactly what i was referring too, have found some videos to watch to get a better understanding now knowing the proper terms to look for :slight_smile: