Greetings;

How often does LinuxCNC save the position.txt file?

I note that if there are touchoffs in use, re-homeing the machine to its 
homing switches does not clear the touch offs and this could be the 
source of some useful data.

However, I would like to automate its finding a brass jig dohicky on the 
top of a hinged board that gets flipped up to serve as a positioning 
guage fixture for the workpiece.  I damaged that dohickey by using the 
wrong polarity of a gpio pin, so it didn't stop on first contact, but on 
first contact break.  Duh.  Not damaged beyond use however, I just need 
to recalibrate its offsets from the workpiece.

I want to make the first move, one that puts it within a mm in all 3 
planes of the inside of this little brass gizmo, so that a set of 
G38.2's can then set this dohicky's offsets into the G54 co-ord system.  
That I can do easily enough, but after thats done I need to run it up 
50mm and stop, waiting for me to click on a continue button popup so I 
am reminded to flip that part of the jig out of the way.

So the real question is, other than a pair of tool change pauses, how can 
I achieve this stop & prompt to move the jig?

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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