Is it possible to pause a contoured motion?

I'm using the NI-73xx palette to construct a contoured pattern. Everything works fine, but it won't be practical until I can get it to pause and resume exactly where it left off. I tried using the velocity override VI but couldn't get it to work. I think it's because contoured motion calculates the velocity for you, so you can't change it even if you tried to set it. Any ideas? Thanks!
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I can't think of a way to simply pause any moves in the NI Motion API, but I would recommend looking into doing what I described above. Essentially, if a move gets stopped, programmatically update the buffer going to the contoured move based on the current stopped position. This will generate smooth motion while retaining the desired travel path. Besides a contoured move, there are no other options for "continuous" motion; the other move types are used as finite moves and trajectories.
Karl G.
Applications Engineer
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