Center Punch on Crossfire?

I’m trying to set up center punch in Sheetcam, but my Crossfire isn’t firing for the punches. I’m using this video as reference, though it’s a different brand of table:

Has anyone gotten center punch to work?
Here’s my tool setup:

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Search this forum for peck drill or center mark. You don’t need to do anything special in your design, SheetCam will use the center of a hole for a Drill operation. If you use a short, high, pierce cycle, you’ll make a center mark which you can then drill to an accurate size.

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Excellent, thanks. Those keywords yield much better results.

That video I linked to had some configuration I don’t see in mine. It also says to set the pierce delay to 0s, but one other thread there was discussion of that needing to be set. I’ll try it out when I get back to the shop.

Followup up here for the benefit of future searches, The pierce delay was indeed the issue. The Youtube video is a different CNC system, and apparently has different operation and parameters. With the Crossfire, the drill operation needs to NOT have a pierce delay of zero.

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