at this point i'm so frustrated. this morning after reading all the stuff on touch off pads, i decided to go out and just see if my machine would even run. all i needed to do was set my home switches. which was easy. got that done loaded up the road runner g code. just set my bit to touch the material and set z dro to zero. hit the run button and off it went. it plunged about .25 and made a straight line about 4 inches with a 45deg angle on the end of it and then raised .25 above the material and finished the tool path, of course nothing was cutting bit was way to high. this arrow thing seems to be in the path of the neck of the road runner. after 4 trys i did manage to get it to cut the road runner a bit deep but the whole thing came out. that was cool after that final pass i went to jog my router and the jog keys didnt work i checked the hot key setup its fine, i tried shutting down my compurt and my electronics paqckage. still no jog keys. i have abandoned the touch off plate for now i just want to get it running consistantly before i try to do anything more difficult. i will keep plugging at it till it works or my head explodes.