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#How to make a cnc touch plate zip file
#How to make a cnc touch plate archive

Just start LinuxCnc and verify that 2 new buttons appear on the right side of the screen. Yes indeed you just replaced your current custompanel.xml with the one from the zip archive.

#How to make a cnc touch plate archive

Copy (yes overwrite it) the file custompanel.xml from the unzipped archive on your desktop into the directory containing your actual configuration.

This is the same directory as where you created the backup from as mentioned at the top of the article.

Go to the directory containing your current configuration files.

Unzip the archive in a temporary directory (on your desktop for example) and go into the folder named plasma or touchplate depending on which link you followed for the zipfile.

local copy (different name, same files though).

#How to make a cnc touch plate zip file

You can download the zip file needed for the remaining steps: Verify the other options are the same as on the screenshot. Tick the boxes at the marked positions A and B. You now arrive on the Advanced Configuration options screen. Press Forward on the Basic Machine Information screen.Select your existing configuration file.Using the defaults when setting up your system with LinuxCnc some options are not enabled. Select all files in that directory and copy them to a backup directory (I called it backup1). To help you identify, this typically contains files like: Locate the directory containing your configuration files. If for whatever reason you need to roll back this will help you out. The setup and configuration changes the current setup. While I’m, setting up my CNC with the touch plate I provide this step by step overview. Here is a link to zip file with his files and tutorial. Without the information in this thread on I wouldn’t be able to do this so credits to and especially to author Spokes who provided a tutorial and bundled the files needed on page 11 of the mentioned thread. In Part 1 we verified the touch plate being connected and configured right.