Hi there,
I'm a nwebie trying to do something fairly complicated, (of course). I have a 24" Silver Bullet and am using SCAL3. I'm trying to cut wallpaper, so, very long strips on a homemade 6' long mat. And every now and then I get the dreaded 'pause'. I am very careful to size my patterns at 23.75" so that they will fit within the cutting area, and fidget with the mat A LOT to try and line it up with the '0' guide on the right of the machine so that it will feed straight, but with that long a mat I understand that it may shift ever so slightly over the length of the run. I have accepted that when the machine pauses it is because it is trying to reach some part of the design that is unreachable. I guess my question is, what is happening between the software and the machine and is there any way out of this limbo short of turning the machine off and losing everything?It's really a bummer when this happens 5' into a 6' cut!
It seems like the cutting file continues to stream to the machine, and then the software is convinced that the cut is complete and it's work is done. Is there any way to pause the cutting file so that, I don't know, I could attempt to shift the mat over a hair and continue cutting from there?
Any tips, tricks or wild guesses would be welcome!