WinCNC. We surface thick material regularly and I am thinking (not really thinking, I want to) I want to be able to surface with the pins up so I can rely on the support and alignment of the pins as opposed to screwing support to the spoil board on those two sides. I am not a Gcode wizard but I have edited our post several times to allow for pins up at the end of a run, locations for the machine to move to at the end of a run, jaws open, jaws, closed, etc.. some macros. But trying to figure out what in the post drops the pins has got me confounded. I just want to have a separate post that leaves the pins up when the file starts to run. I dont really want to add a line that pops the pins back up after they have retracted because even the slightest shift in the material due to some pressure applied to the screwed down supports could cause the pins to pop the material up off the spoil board and then the ensuing crash.
Any input is appreciated.
Here is the header for the start of the file in the post:
+================================================
+
+ Block definitions for toolpath output
+
+================================================
+---------------------------------------------------
+ Commands output at the start of the file
+---------------------------------------------------
begin HEADER
"G90"
"G0 [ZH]"
"G0 [XH] [YH]"
"M5"
"M51"
"T[T]"
"[S]"
"M3"
"g4 x 4"
"M50"
"G0 [ZH]"
"G0 [XH] [YH]"
[F]