Siemens Sinumerik 840D Operating Turning page 156

Section 2
Notes
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Operator Panel layouts of the Sinumerik Operate
1
Horizontal softkey strip with 4 screen keys (2 each located on the
left and right side) (HSK)
2
Vertical softkey strip (VSK)
3
10,4" TFT-colour display
4
USB, CF-card and Ethernet on panel front behind removable
cover
5
Ready-LED (Status red/green), NC-LED (Status LED of the NC)
and CF-LED (write/read access on CF-dard) behind lockable and
removable cover
6
Integrated machine control panel with full CNC-keyboard (for ref-
erence see section 3)
2.3. Horizontal and vertical Softkey bar (HSK/VSK)
Softkeys are buttons, which are dynamicaly linked with programmed func-
tions. These functions are presented on the monitor above the softkey bar
(HSK) or to the left of the softkey bar (VSK) as a strip of icons.
The 8 horizontal softkeys are used to access the individual operation
sectors including further menu layers. There is an associated vertical
menu strip/Softkey strip for each of the horizontal menu points.
The 8 vertical Softkeys are functions associated with the presently se-
lected horizontal Softkey.
The function will be called up when the vertical softkey is pressed.
The content of the vertical softkey bar can therefore change once again
if a subfunction to the selected function is chosen.
The horizontal softkey bar consists furthermore of:
4 screen keys (see pictures below)
"MACHINE"-key:
Calls-up the operating area "MACHINE" (in operat-
ing mode "JOG", "MDA" or "AUTO").
"Recall"-key:
Jumps to the next highest menu level.
"Extend"-key:
Extends the horizontal softkey bar.
"MENU SELECT"-key:
Calls the main menu for operating area selection.
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