Manual Z?

[Rikk]

I've got the X and Y working (temporary mounts) and want to use the current functionality to make the Z mount, is there anyway in mach 3 to say "you do not control Z, pause when a Z move takes place"?

Or, if not...

Can I do a search and replace on the NC file to replace the Z moves with a pause? if this is the case what do I search for and change it to?

Thanks

                     ..............Rikk

[Hood]

You could replace Z moves with a M1 and it will halt if you have Optional Stop enabled. In fact you could really just leave the Z moves enabled if they are all on their own line ( ie no other axis moving at same time) then you just add the M1 before or after a Z move. That would mean if you wanted to run the code in the future with the Z axis then all you would need to do is turn off the Optional stop.


Hood

[Rikk]

Thanks for that, worked out how to do a find/replace to add M1 on to the end of each Z action, tomorrow I'll give it a bash.
Just need to work out how to get the zero on my nc file and the zero on the machine to match then watch for the smoke from east london

[Hood]