Hi all,

It's been awhile since I've been here, but time has allowed me more Mach time, which I have sorely missed.
I have read soooooooo many posts to try and figure this out, but to no avail.
My question is regarding the the tool change location.

Just to recap, I have a probing routine (code in the button) that I have used for years, it fairly basic, but it works great for me.
I just jog close to my touch plate, hit the button, then it moves down in small increments until it touches, retracts, then goes again in smaller increments, sets the thickness of the plate then retracts
I decided to make this into M14 so I can utilise it in a program (similar to M6, I could just never get this to work correctly).

So basically in my program it calls M16, which moves to the tool change location specified in (1200,1201,1202), then I would like the machine to PAUSE HERE so I can manually change the tool and jog close to the touch plate, press CYCLE start, then it would touch the touch plate set Z (which it does really well with my M14 if I do it manually), but I cannot get it to PAUSE once it move to the G53 location, it just goes straight into my probing cycle.
Is there an easy way for me to PAUSE the program at the G53 location? I have looked at so many tool change macros, but I cannot figure out what is making it stop so you can change tools and jog the machine.
It's probably staring me right the face.

Thanks

Tarak

Code ("M0")

May work but I have not tried it.

Thanks Graham, I'll have to give that a go.
I did retry the standard M6 and it seemed to work better than when I previously tried it, it did to do something weird when I had the program
rotated 90° with G68, I think the tool change location may of rotated as well, not sure if it's meant to do this, I wouldn't of thought so??☺