Siemens SINUMERIK 828D Operating Manual page 275

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
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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 "workpiece count"
variable is defined as a user variable ($AC_ACTUAL_PARTS) in the GUD 7 data block.
The place holder (#) is used to format the number of digits at which the workpiece counts
output will begin.
If you do not want to output a count of 1 for the first workpiece, you can specify an
additive value (e.g., <#,$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").
Programming technological functions (cycles)
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