[Emc-users] Moving axis while paused

[Danny M. <da...@au...>]

Recently discovered this:

When paused, the axes can't be moved by the user.

While that sounds like a safe protection at first, that's actually a 
critical problem.  It is not uncommon to have to "fix" something 
mid-run.  In a few cases I've seen the CNC router pop freed pieces out 
and they land on the target of a plunge.  When that happens, the bit 
plunged into it and you have an unbalanced chunk of wood free-spinning 
on the bit.


The proper answer to that is to pause, stop the spindle, lift the Z 
enough to get the debris off the spindle, return to where the bit left 
off, restart spindle, and resume.  But, like I say, manual control of 
the axes is locked out and I can't fix it.


Danny