Siemens sinumerik 840D sl Operating Manual page 374

Programming technology functions (cycles)
8.4 Milling
Approach/retraction
1. The tool approaches the starting point at rapid traverse at the height of the retraction
2. The tool moves to the machining depth FZ at the infeed feedrate Z1 and mills the
3. The tool retracts to the safety clearance at rapid traverse and moves along a straight line
4. Steps 2 and 3 are repeated until the entire text has been milled.
5. The tool moves to the retraction plane in rapid traverse.
Procedure
Entering the engraving text
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plane and adjusts to the safety clearance.
characters.
to the next character.
1. The part program or ShopTurn program to be processed has been
created and you are in the editor.
2. Press the "Milling" softkey.
3. Press the "Engraving" softkey.
The "Engraving" input window opens.
4. Press the "Special characters" softkey if you need a character that
does not appear on the input keys.
The "Special characters" window appears.
 Position the cursor on the desired character.
 Press the "OK" softkey.
The selected character is inserted into the text at the cursor position.
5. If you wish to delete the complete text, press the "Delete text" and
"Delete" softkeys one after the other.
6. Press the "Lowercase" softkey to enter lowercase letters. Press it
again to enter uppercase letters.
7. Press the "Variable" and "Date" softkeys if you want to engrave the
current date.
The data is inserted in the European date format
(<DD>.<MM>.<YYYY>).
To obtain a different date format, you must adapt the format specified
in the text field. For example, to engrave the date in the American
date format (month/day/year => 8/16/04), change the format to
<M>/<D>/<YY> .
Operating Manual, 07/2010, 6FC5398-8CP40-0BA0
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