Hi everybody! New to the forum and have some questions about getting my BLUM laser to work with the Heidenhain controls. All of the hardware and components for the laser are installed on the machine and the BLUM files are in the PLC directory but for some reason the BLUM laser soft keys are not active in my cycle call menu. I am currently in contact with a guy from Heidenhain trying to figure this out but has anyone had similar issues? I'm going to try and write a macro and call the touch probe cycle 584 without using the softkey menu, just like you would call an M-code without the use of softkeys, and see if I can get it to activate that way. Something like...

0 BEGIN PGM TEST INCH
1 TOOL CALL 2 Z S5000
2 TCH PROBE 584 TOOL SETTING L,R ~
Q350=0 ; MEASURING MODE
Q351=0 ; MEASURING SCOPE
Q352=1 ; CUTTING EDGE CONTROL
Q355=-1 ; SPECIAL FUNCTIONS
Q361=3 ; NUMBER OF MEASUREMENTS
Q362=0.01 ; DISPERSION TOLERANCE
Q359=0.03 ; ADD. LENGTH COMPENSATION
Q360=0 ; ADD. RADIUS COMPENSATION

Would this work even though the machine is not recognizing the BLUM files and activating the softkey menu? Any help would be great. I'm completely stuck on this.