Yes you are correct. Step 7 is a pre dress. 12 is the dress position and 18 is a post dress. The pre and the post positions could indeed be the same positions. The reason they are not is simply because this is the first day of reteaching on this robot so I touched up the pre and post steps rather quickly just to get it going and then I ran into the tip dressing problem.
I was unaware that clearance offsets were being applied.. I assume the clearance offsets are the values shown in red in KTools? "CL1=0.980,10.0,10.0,10.0,10.0,10.0,10.0".
I will do some reading on what these are used for.
I will remove these offset values and try it again.