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  1. #1
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    Restart in line that is more than 1 million

    I'm running a file in Mach3 that has 5 million lines of code. Had to restart after it was at roughly 1,500,000 lines in. I wanted to restart at that same line (1/3 of the way into the project) but the software only allows numbers up to 999,999. I was able to get there after much clicking. It is easy to restart in the same location in lines below 1 million. It there a way to overcome this for larger files?

    Thanks
    Sig

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    I thought there was a way to change it, but it looks like it's a hard coded limitation.
    Gerry

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  3. #3
    if you use a sub program call , then mach will skip over the excess code , I do this quite often when I want to rerun a tool , or , a certain section of the program

    eg.

    T1M6
    g0g90g54x0y0
    g43h1Z1.
    m98p1000
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    O1000
    ;
    ;
    ;
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  4. #4
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    Can you just delete the first 1.5 MM lines and save as a new file name? Then you can start from the beginning...
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  5. #5
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    Hi All,
    Thanks for the input. I was just thinking about deleting the first third of code and restarting. That is certainly an option. Have to look into that sub program call as well.

    Sig

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