Accepting Contours - Siemens SINUMERIK 840D sl Operating Manual

Machining the workpiece
5.16 Working with DXF files
5.16.3.4

Accepting contours

Procedure
Select contour
The start and end point are specified for the contour line.
The start point and the direction are selected on a selected element. Beginning at the start
point, the automatic contour line takes all subsequent elements of a contour until there are
no following elements or intersections with other elements.
Note
If a contour includes more elements than can be processed, you will be offered the option of
transferring the contour to the program as pure G code.
This contour then can no longer be edited in the editor.
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- OR -
Press the "Arc center" softkey to place the zero point at the center of an
arc.
- OR -
Press the "Cursor" softkey to define the zero point at any cursor posi-
tion.
- OR -
Press the "Free input" softkey to open the "Reference Point Input" win-
dow and enter the values for the positions (X, Y) there.
1. The part program to be processed has been created and you are in the
editor.
2. Press the "Contour" softkey.
3. Press the "New contour" softkey.
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