Newbie question: I’ve got a S5P 2x4 and I need to make some cuts out of a sheet of MDF that has been cut down to 2’ x 4’. I can’t get the bit to zero at the lower left corner AND leave have the bit setter installed. It’s easy enough to move it out of the way and set my zero, either manually or with my bitzero – but as you all well know, the second part of the z-zero wants to use the bitsetter to measure stickout. I thought, well, ok, I can zero the tool with the bitzero then when it tells me to remove the magnet, etc., I can move the workpiece out of the way, re-install the bitsetter and then click “OK” so it can probe the tool stickout. When that’s done, I can remove the bitsetter and get the workpiece secured. But – that won’t work: when the job starts it wants the bitsetter again.
As @CullenS said but use center as your origin. Set your Z zero with the BitZero or manually. Save your .c2d file and then disable your second tool path, save again or with a different name. Then enable the second tool path and disable the first tool path. Save or give it a different name. So you would have 3 files and the original and then 2 others with different names. Since the original origin of the center and Z zero are still set just run the first tool path and then the second one. If the second tool path has a different bit just set the Z zero because the X and Y are persistent. Easy Peasy.
Well, I wouldn’t assume it. You should set it. And if you disable the bitsetter but have multiple tools used in your project you need to save and run the toolpaths individually. That way you set Z after each tool change.