Test tool path limits before the actual cutting

I have a old okuma vertical mill retrofitted with linuxcnc and having a bit of a problem with travel limits.

My issue is when i post a tool path that will extend beyond the trave limits of the machine there is no way to find out if its exceeding the travel limits until program gets to that particular line(movement).

For example in my router which still run mach 3 when i load a program it goes through the code and gives warning about travel limits. But with my mill i'm missing that. This gets really frustrating when there are large parts to mill that extend right to the boundary.

Am i missing something here?
I know we can do some alternatives but do we have a simple functionality like in mach 3 to test the program limits?

Had to move a large set up plate due to this. That wasn't fun.

Any help is appreciated.

Actually limits are set properly. I've been using the machine for some time.

i think my question might be a bit confusing so you didn't clearly understood what i asked . imagine this.

I have a really long tool and a really tall fixture. retract height of a tool path with that tool is more than the z travel height.

but there are other tool paths before that retract move which are within the travel limit.

my machine will run all the other gcode upto that particular retract move and only then it will alarm out about exceeding the travel limit.

in mach 3 it alarms out right when you press cycle start. Or if we have moved our our work offset we can regenerate the tool path so it will check for the limits.

that's what i'm missing. I'm not a fan of mach3 actually I'm planning to get rid of mach3 system out of my router. But this is a simple thing that I really miss.

anyone?

I can only guess, if toollength is probed within the program, the error will occur as described. To avoid that, enter the expected toollength in tooltable, or probe the tools first. Then on reload file, or start it will complain about z-limit exceeded, but doesn't point to where this happens

thanks for the reply. my issue is it's not complaining when i load the program or when i hit cycle start. tool lengths are in the table. it just runs the program until that line which exceed the travel limits. no warning before that. is this normal?

and tool length is not probed within the program. This behavior is a bit confusing.

Thanks andy. Wow missed that. I'm using probe basic.
I'm beginning to think that might be the cause.
I'll test with axis and reply back with my hal and ini files