12
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
m
ö
ü
Ä
Ö
Ü
ø
Characters that cannot be printed
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
characters)
\t: Vertical tab (the tab width is permanently set to one line)
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Input
%ae
%oe
%ue
%AE
%OE
%UE
%D
TNC 620 | User's Manual Cycle Programming | 3/2014