Siemens SINUMERIK 840D sl Operating Manual page 378

Programming technological functions (cycles)
8.2 Milling
Entering the engraving text
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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> .
7. Press the "Variable" and "Time" softkeys if you want to engrave the
current time.
The time is inserted in the European format (<TIME24>).
To have the time in the American format, change the format to
<TIME12>.
Example:
Text entry: Time: <TIME24> Execute: Time: 16.35
Time: <TIME12> Execute: Time: 04.35 PM
7.
• Press the "Variable" and "Workpiece count 000123" softkeys to
engrave a workpiece count with a fixed number of digits and leading
zeroes.
The format text <######,_$AC_ACTUAL_PARTS> is inserted and
you return to the engraving field with the softkey bar.
• Define the number of digits by adjusting the number of place holders
(#) in the engraving field.
If the specified number of positions (e.g. ##) is not sufficient to
represent the unit quantity, then the cycle automatically increases
the number of positions.
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Operating Manual, 03/2013, 6FC5398-7CP40-3BA1
Milling