Visual Display Unit And Operating Panel - HEIDENHAIN TNC 620 User Manual

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Visual display unit and operating panel

Display screen
The TNC is available either as a compact version or with a separate
display unit and operating panel. Both TNC variants come with a 15-
inch TFT color flat-panel display.
1 Header
When the TNC is on, the selected operating modes are shown
in the screen header: the machining mode at the left and the
programming mode at right. The currently active operating
mode is displayed in the larger box, where the dialog prompts
and TNC messages also appear (unless the TNC is showing
only graphics).
2 Soft keys
In the footer the TNC indicates additional functions in a soft-
key row. You can select these functions by pressing the keys
immediately below them. The lines immediately above the
soft-key row indicate the number of soft-key rows that can be
called with the black arrow keys to the right and left. The bar
representing the active soft-key row is highlighted
3 Soft-key selection keys
4 Shifting between soft-key rows
5 Setting the screen layout
6 Shift key for switchover between machining and programming
modes
7 Soft-key selection keys for machine tool builders
8 Switching the soft-key rows for machine tool builders
9 USB connection
TNC 620 | User's Manual
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