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Thanks Ken, this really sets my mind at ease. Going to attempt it shortly and be less stressed knowing the community can lend me a hand if needed.

I've ordered in some metrol home switches and a tool setter because you're right, it will end up driving me crazy.

Id like to do some ballscrew mapping with my Acorn setup. I've realized a glass linear scale with best resolution/accuracy is needed. Id like to avoid buying the DRO display. Its a standard Chinese unit from eBay. RS422 output. Is it possible to hook up the scale to the Acorn encoder input and have ...

Thanks for the links. I've found a workaround by simply setting "Part Z0" manually each tool change, adding a negative offset to 123 block in the prompt. This works while i plan out home switch and tool setting macros. Hopefully next CNC12 release will have more extensive tool change routi...

I can understand that.

Overall pleased with everything else, especially the replies here, very quick and helpful.

For Option 1. Manually jog the Z axis to the new position and press cycle start to accept the new position.

What does this mean? Can you elaborate? Is there a guide which shows the use of each of these methods? Seems important.

I was looking to do this without adding homing switches to my machine. Also using flood so no touch plates. Hoping there is a simple way around this. Sifting through many many posts, honestly, a bit of a pain. Some posts incomplete or non-applicable. Centroid please provide a more complete guide for...

I have a Taig CNC Mill, it uses ER16 collets, there is no way to set tool height. I have to set Z0 every tool change but im not exactly clear how this is done. I've looked over the router posts about tool changes and Macros and they don't entirely answer my question. I want to use a 123 block and a ...

Actually, using a mac is what fixed it for me. Lots of people use iCloud for their main email address, problem is if you download a file (such as centroid's license file) from iCloud's browser based mail system (accessed through a web browser on your Windows CNC PC) it will corrupt the file in some ...

Downloading from a different PC fixed it.

This is strange. Just got my license file from Centroid for Mill Pro (Acorn) but no matter what i do CNC12 wont see the file. I've tried using adding .dat extension, tried it without, uninstalled and installed software, when i go to import license file it shows nothing is there (it is definitely the...