Expanding A General Category - Siemens SINUMERIK 840D sl Commissioning Manual

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Expanding a general category

Adding a new category
A group of instructions via which instructions can be displayed is stored behind a
general category heading.
A line for the category definition contains the following 3 parameters:
Category definition
Technology code "r"/Category ID/Category name
In this case, the text file could contain the following line:
r/2/Travel commands
r
2
Travel commands
The "/" character separates the parameters and may only be used as a text
character in the last parameter.
The length of the category name is limited by the display and may not, for example,
exceed 40 characters with a standard type size of 8pt.
The following category IDs are reserved:
Table 1-2 Category IDs
Category ID
0...49
50...99
100 and over
The following category IDs are provided in the Siemens text file as standard:
Table 1-3 Pre-assigned category IDs
Categ.
ID
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
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is a predefined setting for category declarations.
is the category ID used to assign instructions to the
category.
category name.
Category name
Preparatory Functions
Travel Commands
Path Action
Feedrate
Spindle
Axis Handling
M Functions
H Functions
Offsets
Transformations
Tool Management/
Compensations
Technology Functions
User
Siemens
Machine manufacturer
End user
Categ.
ID Category name
13 Program Handling
14 Standard Cycles
15 Measuring Cycles
16 Measurement
17 Synchronized Actions
18 Interrupt Handling
19 String/Field operators
20 Math. Functions/Operators
21 Definitions
22 High-Language Elements
23 Parameters
24 System Variables
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