diff --git a/src/Drivers/Cli/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.TwinCAT.Cli/Commands/ReadCommand.cs b/src/Drivers/Cli/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.TwinCAT.Cli/Commands/ReadCommand.cs
index 22e23894..96fe1d87 100644
--- a/src/Drivers/Cli/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.TwinCAT.Cli/Commands/ReadCommand.cs
+++ b/src/Drivers/Cli/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.TwinCAT.Cli/Commands/ReadCommand.cs
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ public sealed class ReadCommand : TwinCATTagCommandBase
     /// <summary>Gets or sets the TwinCAT symbol path to read.</summary>
     [CommandOption("symbol", 's', Description =
         "Symbol path. Program scope: 'MAIN.bStart'. Global: 'GVL.Counter'. " +
-        "Nested UDT member: 'Motor1.Status.Running'. Array element: 'Recipe[3]'.",
+        "Nested UDT member: 'Motor1.Status.Running'. Array element: 'Recipe[3]'. " +
+        "TwinCAT 2 global (keep its leading dot): '.OPC_HEARTBEAT'.",
         IsRequired = true)]
     public string SymbolPath { get; init; } = default!;
 
diff --git a/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.TwinCAT/TwinCATSymbolPath.cs b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.TwinCAT/TwinCATSymbolPath.cs
index 178773cf..e57284a7 100644
--- a/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.TwinCAT/TwinCATSymbolPath.cs
+++ b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.TwinCAT/TwinCATSymbolPath.cs
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.TwinCAT;
 ///     grammar maps cleanly onto the AbCip Logix path parser, but without Logix's
 ///     <c>Program:</c> scope prefix. The leading segment is the namespace (POU name /
 ///     GVL name) and subsequent segments walk into struct/array members.</para>
+///     <para><b>TwinCAT 2 globals</b> are named with ONE leading dot (<c>.OPC_HEARTBEAT</c>,
+///     <c>.OPC_MACHINEDATA.PROCESSSTATUS</c>) and the PLC requires it — without the dot
+///     <c>SYM_HNDBYNAME</c> answers 0x710 (symbol not found), observed live on a TC 2.11 CX. The dot
+///     is kept on the ROOT segment's <see cref="TwinCATSymbolSegment.Name"/> so
+///     <see cref="ToAdsSymbolName"/> round-trips it unchanged; it is not a separator and never yields
+///     an empty segment. Exactly one dot: <c>..x</c>, <c>.</c> and <c>.[1]</c> stay invalid.</para>
 /// </remarks>
 public sealed record TwinCATSymbolPath(
     IReadOnlyList<TwinCATSymbolSegment> Segments,
@@ -41,6 +47,11 @@ public sealed record TwinCATSymbolPath(
         if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value)) return null;
         var src = value.Trim();
 
+        // A TwinCAT 2 global's single leading dot belongs to the root segment, not before it.
+        // Strip it for the split and put it back on segment 0 below.
+        var tc2Global = src.StartsWith('.');
+        if (tc2Global) src = src[1..];
+
         var parts = new List<string>();
         var depth = 0;
         var start = 0;
@@ -91,6 +102,7 @@ public sealed record TwinCATSymbolPath(
             segments.Add(new TwinCATSymbolSegment(name, subs));
         }
         if (segments.Count == 0) return null;
+        if (tc2Global) segments[0] = segments[0] with { Name = "." + segments[0].Name };
 
         return new TwinCATSymbolPath(segments, bitIndex);
     }
diff --git a/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.TwinCAT.Tests/TwinCATSymbolPathTests.cs b/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.TwinCAT.Tests/TwinCATSymbolPathTests.cs
index f2c9a9a6..2d892b30 100644
--- a/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.TwinCAT.Tests/TwinCATSymbolPathTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.TwinCAT.Tests/TwinCATSymbolPathTests.cs
@@ -104,7 +104,12 @@ public sealed class TwinCATSymbolPathTests
     [InlineData(null)]
     [InlineData("")]
     [InlineData("   ")]
-    [InlineData(".Motor")]              // leading dot
+    [InlineData(".")]                   // a bare dot names nothing
+    [InlineData("..Motor")]             // TwinCAT 2 globals carry ONE leading dot, never two
+    [InlineData(".[1]")]                // leading dot then no identifier
+    [InlineData(".9x")]                 // leading dot then an ident starting with a digit
+    [InlineData(".x.")]                 // leading dot, trailing dot
+    [InlineData(" . x")]                // whitespace between the dot and the identifier
     [InlineData("Motor.")]              // trailing dot
     [InlineData("Motor.[0]")]           // empty segment
     [InlineData("1bad")]                // ident starts with digit
@@ -148,4 +153,42 @@ public sealed class TwinCATSymbolPathTests
             parsed.ToAdsSymbolName().ShouldBe(c);
         }
     }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     TwinCAT 2 names a GLOBAL variable with ONE leading dot (<c>.OPC_HEARTBEAT</c>) and the PLC
+    ///     requires it: on a real TC 2.11 CX (Elma cleaner Z33856, 2026-09-24) <c>SYM_HNDBYNAME</c>
+    ///     answered a handle for <c>.OPC_HEARTBEAT</c> and 0x710 (symbol not found) for
+    ///     <c>OPC_HEARTBEAT</c>. The parser rejected the dot, so a TC2 global fell back to the raw
+    ///     string — losing bit-index parsing (<c>.X.WORD.3</c> was sent to ADS verbatim).
+    ///     Ported from ignitionoee driver 0.19.1.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="input">A TwinCAT 2 global path as the PLC names it.</param>
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData(".x")]
+    [InlineData(".OPC_HEARTBEAT")]
+    [InlineData(".OPC_MACHINEDATA.PROCESSSTATUS")]
+    [InlineData(".ARRCARRIERDATA_V[1].SWORKORDER")]
+    [InlineData(".OPC_LOGDATA.STATIONDATA[5].TEMPERATUREMAXIMUM")]
+    public void TwinCAT2_leading_dot_global_parses_and_keeps_its_dot(string input)
+    {
+        var p = TwinCATSymbolPath.TryParse(input);
+        p.ShouldNotBeNull(input);
+        p.Segments[0].Name.ShouldStartWith(".");
+        p.ToAdsSymbolName().ShouldBe(input);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     The leading dot belongs to the ROOT segment only, so bit access on a TC2 global still parses:
+    ///     the parent word is read as <c>.OPC_STATUS.WORD</c> and bit 3 is extracted locally.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void TwinCAT2_global_bit_access_parses_with_the_dot_on_the_root_segment()
+    {
+        var p = TwinCATSymbolPath.TryParse(".OPC_STATUS.WORD.3");
+        p.ShouldNotBeNull();
+        p.Segments.Select(s => s.Name).ShouldBe([".OPC_STATUS", "WORD"]);
+        p.BitIndex.ShouldBe(3);
+        (p with { BitIndex = null }).ToAdsSymbolName().ShouldBe(".OPC_STATUS.WORD");
+        p.ToAdsSymbolName().ShouldBe(".OPC_STATUS.WORD.3");
+    }
 }