Scanning in air (without touching the material)

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Hello,

Does anybody know any solution to make a probe follow the path without touching the material? I would like to have a helix path around an imaginary sphere (like image below) but I can't create Sphere with strategy "Helix Path", because machine is looking for a material and it ends up stopping the "measurement". The only way of making it work is to create a Point with strategy "CMM position" and formula for X, Y and Z, but machine is moving in "step-mode" (achieve first point and stop, achieve next point and stop) instead of smooth, continuous motion.