# Starting the CNC12 loader with a parameter? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Chat\ **Created:** [April 19, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.avidcnc.com/t/starting-the-cnc12-loader-with-a-parameter/4611 "2025-04-19T01:22:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![korbin.dallas](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.avidcnc.com/korbin.dallas/32/2101_2.png) [@korbin.dallas](https://forum.avidcnc.com/u/korbin.dallas)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.avidcnc.com/t/starting-the-cnc12-loader-with-a-parameter/4611/1 "2025-04-19T01:22:38Z")
Back when we used Mach4 we could pass the machine profile to Mach as a parameter and bypass the loader selection screen. Is that a feature available with the new AVID CNC12 loader? ---
**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:** [April 19, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://forum.avidcnc.com/t/starting-the-cnc12-loader-with-a-parameter/4611/2 "2025-04-19T01:25:22Z")
You can’t do that. What’s the goal here? To just skip the profile loading screen? ---
**Author:** ![korbin.dallas](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.avidcnc.com/korbin.dallas/32/2101_2.png) [@korbin.dallas](https://forum.avidcnc.com/u/korbin.dallas)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.avidcnc.com/t/starting-the-cnc12-loader-with-a-parameter/4611/3 "2025-04-19T16:30:22Z")
Yep. We’re a maker space with varying degrees of skills, expertise and curiosity with users of our cnc. We’d prefer that only certain people have access to the profile manager so we’ve written a VB application that’s the startup for the machine that presents an onscreen set of conditions for use (sacrificial spoilboards, reporting damage, cleanup procedures) that requires their acknowledgement then starts the AVID profile loader. We’d like to have it automatically load the defined profile. To be clear only people who have taken our cnc class and have been checked out on the machine can use it, we just know that people being people, someone will want to fiddle with the software where they shouldn’t. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.avidcnc.com/t/starting-the-cnc12-loader-with-a-parameter/4611/4 "2025-04-19T22:30:06Z")
You can totally do this. Look in c:\cncm and there’s and exe file (cncm.exe) if you load that the last selected profile in the profile manager will load. ---
**Author:** ![korbin.dallas](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.avidcnc.com/korbin.dallas/32/2101_2.png) [@korbin.dallas](https://forum.avidcnc.com/u/korbin.dallas)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.avidcnc.com/t/starting-the-cnc12-loader-with-a-parameter/4611/5 "2025-04-21T17:31:39Z")
Thanks Eric. Didn’t find cncm but there’s a cncr that seems to work. ![Screenshot 2025-04-21 104442](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/avidcnc/original/2X/2/26253f4079557386c3289798357197a920d34dac.png) ---
**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:** [April 21, 2025, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.avidcnc.com/t/starting-the-cnc12-loader-with-a-parameter/4611/6 "2025-04-21T17:51:21Z")
Sorry, CNCR is it. Just be warned: That CNCM folder is actually a hardlink that we swap out when you change profiles. This actually may work to your advantage… Whenever you change profiles the actual directly where that CNCM folder goes changes to match the profile you have set in the profile manager as “default” So if you don’t want to use the profile manager just make sure the profile you want is set as “Default” and never open the profile manager again. You can then open CNCR and it will load that profile. ---
**Author:** ![korbin.dallas](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.avidcnc.com/korbin.dallas/32/2101_2.png) [@korbin.dallas](https://forum.avidcnc.com/u/korbin.dallas)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.avidcnc.com/t/starting-the-cnc12-loader-with-a-parameter/4611/7 "2025-04-21T22:48:54Z")
Thanks Eric. This does work to our advantage. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://forum.avidcnc.com/t/starting-the-cnc12-loader-with-a-parameter/4611/8 "2025-04-21T23:40:07Z")
Nice! Glad that helps! ---
**Author:** ![Heiko77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/67e7ee/32.png) [@Heiko77](https://forum.avidcnc.com/u/Heiko77)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.avidcnc.com/t/starting-the-cnc12-loader-with-a-parameter/4611/9 "2025-04-23T16:16:15Z")
This is awesome - I was looking for something like this for a while! Thank you very much Eric!