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By Brian Glick of Vermeer Corporation This is a macro I wrote to be able to find the center of an arc from three points. This gives 3-point touch off capability to machines that did not come with this feature – even if your machine doesn’t have a touch probe. A simple edge finder can be used. Basically what this does is allows the machine operator to touch three separate points on an arc (with the edge finder) and the custom macro will automatically write the machine coordina

By Brian Glick of Vermeer Corporation Here is a custom macro I developed for machining centers. It allows you to automatically engrave the current date on a part as it is being machined. The date is engraved along the X-axis in numbers 3/16" high with .0375" spacing and in the yyddd format (which we required). In this format, December 31, 2007, would read 07365 for the 365th day of 2007; however, it would not be a problem to modify the macro to arrange the date in any format