I'm trying to modify a half finished coil winding plugin which runs under Mach3 to suit my needs.
Basically the X Axis is a motor that turns while copper wire is wound onto it,while the Y Axis traverses left & right & so forth.
What I'd like to do is build in a pause at each end of the traversal (so I can apply varnish to each layer of winding).
I inserted a 'tool change' command as follows...
Code "M06(Apply Varnish!)"
...when the program is running, Mach3 duly pauses at that line, but when I click on 'cycle start', it takes about 30 seconds before Mach3 continue! I reckon this is becuase a tool change command takes the 3 axis back to machine coordinates & then back again (I can't see this - it's just an inkling).
therefore I was wondering what command I could use in place of a tool change to pause Mach3, but which starts off the axis moving again as soon as I click on cycle start?