I was running a finishing pass for an engrave tonight asks the job abruptly ended as if the entire pass had been completed. Is this a known problem? Is the a maximum size that controller can handle? I am sure I it’s something I did, just unsure what it is
I had this issue a few weeks back, on a simple inlay carve. It just stopped, with no message, like if was done. It took me 3-4 restarts before I could get it to finish. I even tried recalculating the tool path.
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Twice last week on different days I had the Laguna IQ just stop while running as-if I had pressed the Cancel/Stop button (movement stops, spindle stops and retracts). It was about 10-30% completed and it was a very long program (over 1 hour). Nothing was on the controller’s display saying it encountered an error, nor did it have the Save / Discard Breakpoint that happens after a Cancel/Stop. I was puzzled, but I just restarted it from the beginning. Naturally it cut air until it got to the point where it had stopped and continued without incident until it ran to the end successfully. Other tool changes and programs all ran successfully and didn’t stop prematurely. So I thought it was a fluke. However the next day it happened again. I probably should have reported it, but intermittent failures are so hard to describe and I was able to run successfully upon restarting.
I’ve had this happen several times too. The controller doesn’t show any error (it just says the usual “user finish the job”). Doesn’t really hurt anything I just couldn’t figure out what the deal was.
@jamesfreeman @SteveW @morrism14
Any ideas?
We discussed this, this weekend. Without more info it’s hard to say.
Might be a file size issue, the user could try saving the file to the controller internal memory first.
Please pardon my ignorance, but how is that done? My job was an engrave finish toolpath - it was likely a giant file (don’t know if that would make a difference)
Just happened to me. About midway it stopped. I was cutting a profile with tabs. When I restarted it, instead of cutting air until it got midway, it decided to move things around (not expected), break a tab or two and trashed the previous work, grrr. We gotta figure out what’s wrong, I’m starting to lose trust in our little sweet IQ.
Were you moving the controller at all when this happened? Just curious if it were some kind of connectivity problem from the controller, e.g almost broken wire.
No, it was sitting on the deck to the left of the unit.
Can we open up the control box below the IQ and clean/blow it of any dust/particles inside.
Hm. I had opened a red tag yesterday (or thought I had) about the small controller showing an emergency update needed. Did you see that too @bwatt ? Could there be a software issue lurking?
It did not show “the small controller showing an emergency update needed”. It just returned to the standard default screen showing X, Y & Z coordinates. And a message that said something about “user finished”. Next time I’ll take a picture, but I was so surprised it happened that I forgot to do that.