While the myriad of questions is running thru your mind, I'd like to offer one small suggestion (the advice you're getting here is awsome as usual), draw a template of your machine in your cadcam software, once it's up and running and you've know where it homes and whether you set a different "soft-home" to better handle your specific needs. I have two templates drawn for each of my machines, one with machine boundaries, one with exact locations of the vacuum channels. Once this is done, locating the workpieces on your machine is a snap. I draw new templates for each new machine and each established "soft-home". Templates are grouped as an entity, so they can be deleted in one click. Locating small workpieces strategically over vacuum channels is extremely simple this way, then delete vacuum channel template (layer). Doing this as you start up might save some serious hindsight. As you add machines it becomes very simple to take drawing files an place them exactly where you need them.
Best of luck with your machine!!!
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