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Making progress. Touch Probe is working, tool touchoff is working, plate is working. I am not adventurous enough to test one touching off the other yet, though I have seen the relevant thread. I appreciate your help, Swissi!

Let's start with the missing mfunc6.mac macro. When you select the CHIPS Operation Mode, CHIPS will place the matching mfunc6.mac macro in to the C:\cncm folder unless there's already one there in which case you will get the option to backup the existing one and copy the CHIPS one in place. That ...

3dfinder.jpg Hi Swissi.
I have 3 different installations backed up. 2 of them have CHIPS installed. I started over from scratch after bending my probe's stylus figuring the process of upgrading 4.8 to 5.2 and replicating settings possibly messed something up.

None of them had mfunc6.mac until I ...

After checking all probing in Centroid (spindle probe, tool touch off and xyz touch plate) successfully and then installing CHIPS, mfunc6.mac wasn't generated.
I'm assuming just copying the mode 3 template over to mfunc6 works?
My other issue is probing with the spindle touch probe doesn't work like ...

Hello Peter, welcome aboard.

I have a 7watt JTech and use VCP/Aspire with the laser plugin, and I've made a custom post for Aspire that has been working well. You're welcome to try it. It's customized for what I wanted it to do, but can easily be edited to suit. It limits the Z movements, warns ...

Hello Peter, welcome aboard.

I have a 7watt JTech and use VCP/Aspire with the laser plugin, and I've made a custom post for Aspire that has been working well. You're welcome to try it. It's customized for what I wanted it to do, but can easily be edited to suit. It limits the Z movements, warns ...

Sorted, my distance/turn was off on my z-axis. I knew it was something simple.

Swissi,
I'm having trouble getting z to set to 0 correctly on a corner plate. It I'm not sure where I'm going wrong. If after probing xyz, it goes to x0y0 great. If I tell it to go to Z0 it goes approximately 1/4" or 6 mm lower than the thickness of the corner plate. Any ideas?