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Thanks Art. I’ve seen a lot of posts by Tweakie in the Mach support forums, and reading up on the use of M3, M62/63. He’s posted at least one post processor for metric, and a test file. I’m seeing how those commands are working, so I may be able to get this working pretty easily. G0 moves are used ...

Update: When I thought it wouldn't fire after adding M3S1, I was incorrect. Since it did not fire right off the start, I would hit stop. But then I let it go without hitting stop, and twenty seconds later it fired and move.

Because I had set the Spindle to Wait on spindle to stabilize at 90%, this ...

While not 100% what's going on, I was able to fire the laser from Mach 4. I think the next step is to figure out how to write gcode that puts it all together.

If I run this, there is movement as expected. Not yet firing the laser.

M62P0
G0X2
G1Y2F100
M63P0
G0X4
G1Y4F100
M5
M30

But if I add M3 ...

I'm just getting into this, and haven't been through all of the discussions yet, but have watched the videos on Auggie. Before digging in too deeply, I wanted to see if anyone has followed the PoBlog and their suggestions as to firing a laser from Mach 4 using the OC Output on pin 20. Here is the ...