I think I already know the answer to this but maybe not. Lately I’ve been running projects that are all day or longer to complete. Simple question is. Is it possible to shut down the system Black box, Controller, and power at night. And start right back where you left off. Or do I just let it idol all night like I do now. I guessing it’s impossible. Thanks in advance
You can split longer jobs into shorter segments (tape splitting) using the Openbuilds post processor for Fusion. Fusion 360 CAM changes Alex.
Yes you can stop and resume a job, but you need several things done right to make it work. home the machine. always. if you disturb the setup in any way, re-probe the material accurately to set the work origin. Reprobe the tool if you changed that at all. Using OpenbuildsCONTROL, you can restart the Gcode , skipping stuff already cut. Best to re-start from the beginning of a section. Wizards and tools | Recover stoped/crashed job As Alex mentioned, if you are using Fusion360 you can 'tapesplit' the Gcode into timed chunks.
Wow!! Ok good to know. Thanks I dont use F360 much Still working out bugs with he hight stating point. But Ya Great Ill look into it. Thanks again
Homing correctly yes no problem there but to tell the truth I do better with video then reading how to it makes more sense king of like a hands on type approach is you will. Thanks again as always good information here
>> Thanks I dont use F360 much what are you using ? I use Vectric Aspire and you can do tapesplit with the Vectric software as well. Splitting your job into smaller bites with Vectric vectric products, Vcarve pro Aspire etc, have the ability to take a long running job and to break it into multiple smaller gcode files. If your like me, you can not run a 30 hour job with out stopping for the night or going to the store, so I break my gcode into 2 to 3 hour bites. A 30 hour job would be 15 to 20 gcode files. To do this you need to make a copy of your post processor file and create a new version To do this go into "post processor management" Right click on your post processor and select custimize. A new entry will be created with a marker to the right showing that it is customized right click on the new post processor and select "open file location" you can now load this post processor into a text editor In my case I used "OpenBuilds GRBL (mm) (!.GCODE).pp" here is what I chanted in the file POST_NAME = "OpenBuilds GRBL (mm) (*.GCODE)" to POST_NAME = "OpenBuilds GRBL (mm) (SPLIT25,000) (*.GCODE)" and added a new section TAPE Splitting +------------------------------------------------ + TAPE SPLITTING +------------------------------------------------ TAPE_SPLITTING = 25000 200 "%s_%d.gcode" 1 "YES" +------------------------------------------------ + Line terminating characters +------------------------------------------------ and saved this out to file "OpenBuilds GRBL (mm) (SPLIT25,000) (!.GCODE).pp" Then back in aspire Post-Processor Managment, I deleted the copy of .pp I first made and then imported the modifed file by clicking on the file icon on the bootom of the management screen. and going to director C:\ProgramData\Vectric\Aspire\V12.0\My_PostP I created post processors that split on 25,000 50,000 100,000 and 150,000 lines when it is time to save your gcode, use one of the new post processors and go with the one the creates the number of gcode files out that you like here is the files from one of the jobs that I just cut each file ran for 2 to 3 hours 3D Finish 1_1.gcode 3D Finish 1_2.gcode 3D Finish 1_3.gcode 3D Finish 1_4.gcode 3D Finish 1_5.gcode The Vectric documentation on Tape Splitting can be found here 15. Advanced - Post-Processor Editing TAPE_SPLITTING=1000 100 "%s_%d.tap" 1 "YES" ** do not use 1000 otherwise it will create hundreds of small files. FYI - the Vectric documentation had a typo in it, looks like they fixed it on newer versions, but some of the older versions still have the typo TAPLE_SPLITTING=1000 100 "%s_%s.tap" 1 "YES" should be TAPLE_SPLITTING=1000 100 "%s_%d.tap" 1 "YES"
