# Laser Deploy Issue

**URL:** <https://forum.avidcnc.com/t/laser-deploy-issue/4520>\
**Category:** Everything Lasers\
**Created:** [March 18, 2025, 5:19am UTC](https://forum.avidcnc.com/t/laser-deploy-issue/4520 "2025-03-18T05:19:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![lazerwolf](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.avidcnc.com/lazerwolf/32/4564_2.png) [@lazerwolf](https://forum.avidcnc.com/u/lazerwolf)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 5:19am UTC](https://forum.avidcnc.com/t/laser-deploy-issue/4520/1 "2025-03-18T05:19:50Z")

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Greetings all,

When I pull up the utilities menu and select deploy laser or calibrate laser tool height, it rapids over to the machine home location, deploys the laser head, then starts moving Z all the way down past the spoil board until I hit cycle stop. The last time I used it was working normally. I’m not sure what happened. Any ideas?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Eric](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.avidcnc.com/eric/32/3220_2.png) [@Eric](https://forum.avidcnc.com/u/Eric)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.avidcnc.com/t/laser-deploy-issue/4520/2 "2025-03-18T12:19:28Z")

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Are you on an EX control or Mach?

And if you’re on an EX control what version of the control software are you using?

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**Author:** ![lazerwolf](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.avidcnc.com/lazerwolf/32/4564_2.png) [@lazerwolf](https://forum.avidcnc.com/u/lazerwolf)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.avidcnc.com/t/laser-deploy-issue/4520/3 "2025-03-18T20:29:07Z")

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Hi Eric,

I’m on EX (I forgot Mach4 ever existed lol) and the latest versions of CNC12 and Avid profile.

Laser is assigned to tool #99 and was selected.

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**Author:** ![Eric](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.avidcnc.com/eric/32/3220_2.png) [@Eric](https://forum.avidcnc.com/u/Eric)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.avidcnc.com/t/laser-deploy-issue/4520/4 "2025-03-18T20:55:18Z")

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What happens when you got o MDI and type in “T99 M6” and then press cycle start (no quotation marks)

and had this been working previously and it’s not working now?