On Friday 27 July 2018 20:10:36 Kurt Jacobson wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 5:12 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> > Somewhere in the gcode is a pair of commands that switch it
> > incremental<->absolute.  Yes g90 for absolute, and g91 for
> > incremental. Its also I think, switchable in the view pulldown.
> >
> > Does this not fix the g38.2 results too?
>
> Gene, G90 and G91 set distance mode, which has no effect on the
> coordinate system that is used.
> Being able to do a probe in G53 (machine coordinates) would be
> perfect, but unfortunately it is not permitted.

Hum, ok, then why is this not a bug? Seems like it ought to be filable as 
such. But I've had wishfull thinking shot down before...

Somebody that knows, please speak up?

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