The Elite Masso machines comes with a great feature that allows for ‘dry runs’ (air carving) to see where a carve will go before actually carving. Masso refers to this as ‘dry run’ / ‘laser pointer’ (as you could add an optional laser pointer if you’d like).
Enable:
To enable this, load any file, zero your material, then click MDI and click the ‘dry run’ button, then cycle start. This will run the file without lowering Z or turning on the spindle.
We think this feature is great so we have it ‘enabled’ from the factory.
The problem:
For this feature to work, it uses “Tool #0”.
In some rare instances, the CAD program or user will assign a tool in their library as tool #0. If they export the gcode with any tool #0, this toolpath will only run as a dry run.
The Fix:
To fix it, either, change this bit to any other tool number (1-100) OR uncheck ‘enable laser pointer’ under multihead settings: dry run-laser pointer on the F1 Setting of the Masso.
For more information from Masso docs, see: Dry Run Laser Pointer