Well said John. I, for one, am extremely grateful for all the work that the 'developers' have put into EMC over the years. While I have never used EMC in a commercial sense, I have followed its development almost from its inception and have always been really impressed by the commitment of its developers and their willingness to try to solve the most obscure of problems for its many users. I can't think of another single program which can cope with the sheer variety of different machines and strategies that different people use. I would also like the facility to pause and jog but I can well understand the difficulties involved in implementing it - just getting 'run from line' to work well took ages and, at least on my installation which is the last of the 2.3 versions, still doesn't restart the spindle reliably. As with so many problems in life, getting this request to work is probably more a question of thinking out a strategy rather than actually coding and it may be that even those with no coding abilities, like myself, can help in this respect. Discussions and suggestions, however far fetched, may just spark an idea which hasn't been considered before and this may lead to a solution to the problem. If other, commercial, programs have this feature, then it must be possible and so it will just be a matter of figuring out the correct strategy. As my initial suggestions - I can't see why the program would have to return to exactly the same place in the script as it was when it was paused before the jog.... surely it could return to the start of the 'block' or line it was cutting at the pause.. Since one of the biggest stumbling blocks seems to be canned cycles and subroutines, maybe these could be separated out from the rest of the script by the interpreter and stored in a different place to the main script, being then called by the main script as separate 'programs' as required. Then, when the program restarts after a pause and jog, just the main script could be scanned and reloaded - - I'm probably talking rubbish here - it just shows how limited my programming skills are!!
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