If we enable the laser guide, the button will turn red, and if we disable it, the button will turn gray once again. As you can see, whenever we enable or disable the laser guide, there’s some kind of movement happening. This movement is due to the fact that there is some kind of an XY offset between our laser guide and our plasma torch because they cannot be in the same space on the machine. This offset is specified typically by a systems integrator during the initial machine setup.​

These settings are usually password protected and can be accessed only by a systems integrator during the initial setup. However, the necessary setting is available within the tools window under your X and Y offset for the tools. Here we have tool number one, which is our plasma cutting torch, and here we have tool number nine, which is our laser guide. Notice how they have different X and Y offsets for both of them.​

The laser guide, in addition to moving the machine, will also enable or disable the output that is assigned to our laser guide. If we go into our machine diagnostics, we have our output number 12 that is usually assigned to our laser guide output. We can see that after the machine has moved, this laser output will be enabled, while if we disable it, the laser guide output will be disabled.

Laser Guide toggle: turns on the laser guide/pointer and automatically applies the laser guide tool position offset

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