Dual extrusion Taz 5 can't get tool offset to work

[billyd]

There is very good reason for doing that. If you read other posts on the topic, the toolhead offsets are used for many other things like path optimization and planning. Even if the toolhead offsets are handled by the firmware or by using M218, you still want the software to know what they are.

No I was referring to S3D's placing the fixed number of Y=-52 in the startup gcode with respect to the dual extruder profile of the Taz. If you enter a non zero number in the toolhead offset tab that should be what gets sent to the software, not the nominal -52. Makes no sense to have it in both places.

[CompoundCarl]

I currently have different values in both places. That's because my firmware shipped with what it thought were the correct toolhead offsets, but I still needed to adjust by about 1.5mm when I actually got the printer. So I have to use the M218 command to make those small adjustments, but I still want S3D to know the full correct toolhead offsets so it can do smart path planning.

So that's a perfectly valid example where you need those settings in both places. Thankfully, S3D had that option