I was almost done with a huge job layering a 4x8 sheet of acrylic and stopped to vacuum the crap out of there and accidentally hit esc and stopped the job. is there any way to start back where I hit the pause button? I’m 20 hrs in this and about $375 for the acrylic. Any help would be appreciated
Not the first one to do something like this. Don’t have one, but does the Ruida have some sort of start back up feature? I am pretty sure Lightburn does not.
EXCEPT maybe you can use the Start Here button in the Preview. Not sure if that is in the Ruida setups.
From my experience start here is a hit or miss thing. Really hard to get it back exactly where you were.
It already has one pass on it and was almost finished with second pass and I checked on it and the acrylic dust and Cobb webs were terrible so paused it to vacuum it and did what I did. So it’s engraved from backside and gonna be lit up with internally RGB standoffs. So all that being said I am going to have to be really really close on stop start point or it will be a huge goof up. I bought a second sheet in case I had problems but I just don’t want to babysit it for another 20 hours. I’m having to do it in 3 sections and have to index and use cut print I think it’s called. It’s been a nightmare from get go.
If you’re at a good point in the job and have retained your machine’s location, you can disable any layers that have already run, and then use the ‘Start From’ feature to pick up where you left off.
We have a video and knowledge article specifically for this use case: Start Here
If you didn’t maintain your sheet’s position, you can use the Print and Cut feature to re-align/locate your work and resume from that point.
If you were partway done a fill layer, one trick is to change your scan angle from 0 degrees > 180 degrees (or whatever angle you had it at, +180) so the fill layer starts from the other side of the fill. Then you can stop the fill right when the two jobs touch back up, and continue on with the remaining parts of the job.
Been there, Done that.
I keep a notepad next to me when I’m running the laser for various reasons.
One thing learned the hard way is to write down the progress time every time I hit pause.