Hood
Further to my previous post- I spent another frustrating hour or so playing offline with offsets etc.
The first observation is that the x offset dro on the main tools screen seems to read diameter while the offset in the table is halved, for radial movement I suppose. ( machine is in diameter mode).
If I set tool 1 as master and zero everything ( machine co-ords etc.), do a move to say X50, Z50 switch to tool 2, touch x & z & all makes sense. I get a table offset of x -25 z -50. I can switch backward & forwards between tools, do moves, return to tool1 g0 x0 z0 and still have all readings at zero.
The difficulty is then with tool3 which is say, a parting tool in a rear toolpost. So I declare tool 3 as a rear tool & set the distance between toolposts to -100mm, say. I move to x00 z00 in tool 1, change to tool 3 & touch x & z.I rather expected the axis coordinates to go to -100, but no I get -150! Bear in mind that nothing has actually moved here, I'm just changing tools backwards & forwards. Now for the fun bit - I change back to tool1. Do I get back to Zero? No it's -50. The table offsets have remained at zero for all but tool 2 in all this.There seems to be some interaction between tool2 & 3 so it's possible to get all sorts of combinations in the DRO. You can even catch it changing it's mind now & then.
I find all of this extremely confusing (probably you do too). The answer is that you really can't switch toolposts in the current version, but it would be really useful to be able to do so.
Tony