Cool video!
I like those CNC punch presses. Somewhere I saw a little one set up similarly that would be handy. It was tabletop.
Anyway, probably lots of ways to accomplish what you are looking for. Here are a couple of thoughts:
- You can program a dwell, which is a time delay where the machine waits. Mach3 lets you do dwells in seconds or milliseconds depending on how you have it configured. G4 is used to program a dwell.
- If you want an operator-controlled pause, you can use M1, which stops until the operator hits Cycle Start.
- You can write some custom VB code that would wait until some switch closed before proceeding. I'd head over to the Mach Support Board (either Yahoo or the one on the ArtSoft site) before attempting that.
Just using the G4 dwell seems like an easy way to get going.
Best,
BW
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