From the course: G-Code Programming for CNC Foundations
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M00: Program stop - G-Code Tutorial
From the course: G-Code Programming for CNC Foundations
M00: Program stop
- [Instructor] The M0 command allows you to pause or stop your program in the middle of the operation. You might want to do this if you need to check or measure a hole, or maybe you have a very specific operation that's going to be happening, and you want to verify that a tool didn't break or something like that might have happened to your part before you move on in the program. Simply add a M0 in your program and you'll just pause and wait for the cycle start button or the green button on your controller. Now on the screen here you can see we've got a very simple program that's going to be doing a mock spot drilling operation. So it's really just going to be doing it in the air so we can see what's going to be happening so we can really focus in on that M0 command. So in this case, I'm going to have to hit cycle start five times to go through this entire program because every time the control sees that M0 it's going to stop and wait for me to hit cycle start one more time. Let's head…
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