Allowed Engraving Characters; Characters That Cannot Be Printed - HEIDENHAIN TNC 620 User Manual

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Cycles: Special Functions

12.6 ENGRAVING (Cycle 225, DIN/ISO: G225)

Allowed engraving characters

The following special characters are allowed in addition to

lowercase letters, uppercase letters and numbers:

! # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ \ ] _

The TNC uses the special characters % and \

for special functions. These characters must be

indicated twice in the text to be engraved (e.g. %%) if

you want to engrave them.

You can also use the engraving cycle to engrave German umlauts

and the diameter symbol:

Algebraic sign

Apart from text, you can also define certain non-printable

characters for formatting purposes. Enter the special character \

before the non-printable characters.

The following formatting possibilities are available:

\n: Line break

\t: Horizontal tab (the tab width is permanently set to 8

\t: Vertical tab (the tab width is permanently set to one line)

TNC 620 | User's Manual Cycle Programming | 3/2014