Estop adjustment or alternative

[rhfurniture]

Hi,
There are several things I do with shopbot for which it would be disastrous if I hit the emergency stop, space or S. Using a slitter saw, cutting a moulding that went under the part etc. Is there any way of making it so that if I hit stop, the machine does not automatically go to safe Z?

G4 SB 3.6.46

Thanks,

Ralph.

[Brady Watson]

Not sure on that one, Ralph. In the not too distant past, it used to be if you hit the e-stop or spacebar, the tool would stop immediately without Z retraction. Hitting the S key would ramp the tool down and retract the Z. Somewhere along the line - all 3 actions resulted in the same Z retraction - eliminating the ability to omit Z movement when hitting a stop command.

This one is something you'll want to ask SB directly. I would send them an email and see if there is something you could do on your end. Since the action of an e-stop event is handled 'behind the scenes' - there isn't any parameter that I am aware of that you could change to stop the tool the way you describe - (I wish there still was...for the application you mention).

As you can imagine, there are safety concerns for the 99.9% of others not doing this type of work. If the e-stop action was able to be edited, that might cause some unintended consequences. Ask SB directly to get the official word...

-B

[rhfurniture]

Thanks Brady, I will try that.
Ralph.

[rhfurniture]

From Frank:
The way we do it on the 5 axis machine is to set the safe to no value. Delete whatever number is currently there.
I can put this into my Autocad toolpathing script as an option, with a return to previous setting at the end.
Allbest, R

[Brady Watson]

Cool - thanks for letting me know & glad there is a solution.

-B

[rhfurniture]

Cool - thanks for letting me know & glad there is a solution.

-B

Following discussion with Frank, if you want to do this from within a sbp file, deleting the value doesn't work, but you can feed it a large minus value - it doesn't go down on doing an estop!

R.

[Brady Watson]

Hmm...Interesting, Ralph. Thanks for posting this.

-B