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First Move Z Clearance
When I generate GCode toolpaths it moves the tool directly from the home to the first work location. I like to zero my tool to the bed rather than to my work surface because I know the bed is perfectly flat, but my surface may not be.
This causes problems because there may not be clearance on the path from the home to the first cut location. Subsequently it will always lift the tool directly to the safe Z before doing any rapid moves. I would like it to also do this for the first move.
I can manually add a G0 Z45.000 or whatever line in the generated file to easily fix this, but it would be nice if there were a way to have that done automatically.
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Justin, did you ever get an answer to this? I think I can help with it.
You can edit your post to always go to a specific z height.
I edited my post to make my Z move before my X & Y for a simular reason.
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