Siemens SINUMERIK 840Di sl Function Manual page 88

3 Setting up functions
3.1 Maintenance
Configuring tag
The system provides a selection of predefined variables which can be added to the
variable monitor configuration simply by selecting them.
Fig. 3-6: Variable monitor – configure variables
Field
Name
Axis
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Open the form to configure a new
variable
Edit the configuration of a freely defined
variable
Name of the variable
With variables that refer to an axis, the
name of the machine axis is displayed
here.
The reference to an axis can be
changed as long as no data was
captured for this variable.
The unit for the variable is displayed in
this column.
This function is used to create a copy of
the variable.
Remove the variable from the
configuration and delete the data for
this variable
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