setting a tool indexer on a mach 3 lathe

[JohnHaine]

Not sure of your question, but don't you just type the current tool number into the appropriate DRO?

[Flipdop]

Hi John

no, if the indexer is in the wrong position, then when I type in the tool number, it goes to the tool it thinks is the one you enter...

I would have thought there was a simple page where you can type in the number the station is currently at, and this would over ride any tool the controller thinks is in the indexer..
After all, if you use manual tool changing, then surely this is how it works?

unless I am doing something silly.. ?
perhaps i am and i am over thinking it :-)