By the way, we had had the discussion of how to automatically maintain the origin if you’re using the same machine to do both the CNC-ing and the lasering…and we had discussed creating a GRBL macro that moves the head the offset of the laser attachment. Obviously, that won’t work if you’re using two different machines to do the different functions, but if you’re going to use a shapeoko, you’d just need to measure the precise offset of your laser from your router spindle and then execute the command to move the X and Y to reposition the next tool to precisely the same origin. Then you get rid of all of the unnecessary re-zeroing.
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