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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 ruining parts
« on: February 07, 2017, 09:18:48 AM »
Hi anyone
I am having a serious problem with Mach3
I'm running a plasma cutter and plasma cutters being plasma cutters, sometimes an arc may fail to start, or the torch may cut out halfway through a cut.
Of course, you should be able to STOP, SELECT NEXT LINE, RUN FROM HERE. But this is not possible for me, the result being that a single mistake from either operator or machine results in complete loss of the work piece. This has cost me thousands by now and I am more than upset with the software.
Every time I select RUN FROM HERE, regardless of what line I start from, it jumps to line 13 and does nothing.
So essentially once I have stopped the machine for whatever reason, I must kiss my part goodbye, because the machine will not start from anywhere unless I restart the whole damn part programme! Obviously you can't do that with plasma as it will dive the torch, burn out the nozzle and try to cut existing cuts.
Please, can someone help me with this problem before it causes even more financial and business reputation damage to our small, struggling third world company.
Just lost 20USD this afternoon, last week it was another job and I am basically forced to accept only basic shape jobs out of fear of our machine ruining everything because of this one tiny ridiculous problem.

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