Rack Mount Point

Make a quick new program that creates an external alignment with a READPOIONT (X Y Z = 0) that is the MOUNT POINT on for your rack. Or wherever point near the rack you'd like to use.

Call and Save the external alignment named RACK_ALN.

In other programs:

When you need to move to the rack point you created, Recall External RACK_ALN alignment, follow it with a MOVE POINT to 0,0,0. Then recall your previous alignment.

RECALL/ALIGNMENT,EXTERNAL,RACK_ALN

MOVE/POINT,NORMAL,<0,0,0>

RECALL/ALIGNMENT,INTERNAL,ABC

- Mike (in Snowy Buffalo)

Make a quick new program that creates an external alignment with a READPOIONT (X Y Z = 0) that is the MOUNT POINT on for your rack. Or wherever point near the rack you'd like to use.

Call and Save the external alignment named RACK_ALN.

In other programs:

When you need to move to the rack point you created, Recall External RACK_ALN alignment, follow it with a MOVE POINT to 0,0,0. Then recall your previous alignment.

RECALL/ALIGNMENT,EXTERNAL,RACK_ALN

MOVE/POINT,NORMAL,<0,0,0>

RECALL/ALIGNMENT,INTERNAL,ABC

- Mike (in Snowy Buffalo)

That will work.   Not as elegant as I would like (I'm weird that way), but it will do what I want.

Thanks.

The issue with that is that it will vary depending on which probe is loaded and what probe angle you're at, MOVE/CLEARPOINT is the way to go for this.

Yes, that will work.

However, my OCD does not like pressing <F10> to confirm MOVE/CLEARPOINT parameters. 

I'd rather use MOVE/POINT,NORMAL,<,,0>  to control movements in 1 axis (Z in this case).