So once my computer fell asleep and I lost a job. Another time I accidentally hit the stop button instead of the the pause button and lost a job. I want to be able to start where it stopped. Can it be done?
There’s no way to resume where it left off. You basically need to start over. If your spindle returned to its home position (like when you hit stop), you could restart the project. When it has happened to me, I’ve left the spindle motor off until it got close to the point where it would start to cut again. I only do this to save wear on the brushes.
I don’t think you can in Easel, but if you use UGS to send g-code files to the X-carve, you can.
In UGS, after the job starts, hit pause and you can turn off the g-shield/arduino power supply, just don’t close out UGS or turn off your computer. Once you are ready to resume, turn the power supply back on and hit resume.
You can do this inside ChiliPeppr. Find the line of Gcode it died on and choose “Set as New Start Position”
If you find it hard to figure out which line it died on, you can enter “Inspect Mode” and move your mouse around the 3D viewer. Each line of gcode is highlighted with a cylinder around the line and a fly-out menu that shows you which line of Gcode that generated the line. Then “Go To” the gcode line and choose “Set as New Start Position”
Inspect Mode is turned on at top of 3D viewer.
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