Howdy All, I recently had to pause my machine during a job for about 30 minutes. It was performing a 3D finishing toolpath at the time (bit is sitting on the work piece). I stopped my spindle’s rotation also during this pause. Upon return to the job, I started my spindle rotation, and hit resume…

Bueller? Anyone? My absolutely uninformed guess is the Z “dropped” while paused, but you couldn’t tell because the bit was resting on the workpiece. Z still lost some steps though, and then it resumed the X/Y motions. Just my 2 pesos, I don’t even have a machine yet, I just read about them consta…

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Losing Z Position on program pause

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Losing Z Position on program pause

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