What machine and control are you using? What method do you use to touch off your tools? Do you use the work shift or G54?
The way I see it is that the G54 value is the distance from the spindle face to the part Z zero, and the tool geometry is the distance from the turret face and centerline to the tool tip (Mine is the Hardinge II+ with FANUC 10TF control)


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Face, don't move the Z-axis, highlight the Z in the right hand column on the workshift page, type in Z0, INPUT. Touch off the rest of the tools. Done.
