Guys - what's the proper method to tell what coordinate system I'm currently in? The DRO on my mill handily shows it. I'm running into problems trying to assign position of my tool changer and tool offsets, and suspect that I'm simply in a coordinate system that is applying tool offsets or something along those lines....

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@dc42 Actually - if I've dropped the tool, but not picked up a new one and issue a G11, what would happen?

@dc42 That might work - I'm not sure that "force" repriming the tool is what I want to do, but I need to think about it a bit.

Ouch. Is there any thought of being able to make them tool specific? I know there was discussion of making M207 tool specific, which would imply then that the G10/G11 sequencing would be as well?

@dc42 Thanks for that - I think it explains some of the weirdness - G10/G11 are not tools specific either in this context? If I issue a G10 retract on T0, then select T1 and do a G10, it's not going to do anything until it sees a G11?

Hi guys - me again. I'm trying to use firmware retraction in my tool-changing routines and I'm having some inconsistent results that I'm struggling to understand.

Are G10/G11 absolute or relative or something else? Should I be able to - for example - retract twice with two G10's or do I need to have a G11 unretract in there? Would a G92 E0 affect either? Are there any limitations to using them in the post and free scripts? And finally - if I execute a M207 it should have effect in any subsequent G10/G11's, regardless of what tool is selected or not?

Guys - what's the proper method to tell what coordinate system I'm currently in? The DRO on my mill handily shows it. I'm running into problems trying to assign position of my tool changer and tool offsets, and suspect that I'm simply in a coordinate system that is applying tool offsets or something along those lines....