Siemens SINUMERIK 840D SL Operating Manual page 360

Programming technological functions (cycles)
8.2 Milling
Note
Entering the engraving text
Only single-line entries without line break are permissible!
Variable texts
There are various ways of defining variable text:
● Date and time
● Quantity
● Numbers
● Text
Mirror writing
You can engrave the text mirrored on the workpiece.
Full circle
If you want to distribute the characters evenly around a full circle, enter the arc angle
α2=360°. The cycle then distributes the characters evenly around the full circle.
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7. Press the "Variable" and "Variable text" softkeys if you want to take the
text to be engraved (up to 200 characters) from a variable.
The format text <Text, _VAR_TEXT> is inserted and you return to the
engraving field with the softkey bar.
You can use any other text variable instead of _VAR_TEXT.
For example, you can engrave the time and date of manufacture on a workpiece. The
values for date and time are read from the NCK.
Using the workpiece variables you can assign a consecutive number to the workpieces.
You can define the format (number of digits, leading zeroes).
The place holder (#) is used to format the number of digits at which the workpiece counts
output will begin.
If you do not want to output a count of 1 for the first workpiece, you can specify an
additive value (e.g., <#,$AC_ACTUAL_PARTS + 100>). The workpiece count output is
then incremented by this value (e. g. 101, 102, 103,...).
When outputting number (e. g. measurement results), you can select the output format
(digits either side of the point) of the number to be engraved.
Instead of entering a fixed text in the engraving text field, you can specify the text to be
engraved via a text variable (e. g., _VAR_TEXT="ABC123").
Operating Manual, 02/2012, 6FC5398-7CP40-3BA0
Milling