OK, I THINK I am seeing what you both are saying. This is different than the way I used to do this.
What you guys are saying is make my probe as tool zero, and say for argument sake, it has a height of 4"
Now, if Tool 2 is an end mill, and it's height is 3", in my Tool Table, I would enter -1" for it's height, is this what you guys are saying?
In the past I would devote my zero'ing tool as its own tool number in the table, and track it's height, this is far easier for recording, but I suppose I see how what you are saying would work, I just have to subtract out my probe height from the actual tool height before I put it in the table.
Am I reading you guys correctly?
Thanks!