Siemens Sinumerik 840D Operating Turning page 274

Section 3
Notes
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Tool list
3.2 Vertical softkey bar
Display area Description
By pressing the VSK 1.1 "Tool measure" the
"Measuring tool" window opens.
(See section 3.7 in this module)
By pressing the VSK 1.1 "Tool measure" the
"Measuring tool" window opens.
(See section 3.6 in this module)
By pressing the VSK 1.3 "Edges" the vertical soft-
key bar for assigning new cutting edges and delet-
ing existing cutting edges opens to the right side of
the screen. If a tools has several cutting edges
each edge gets its own set of correction data.
(See section 3.8 in this module)
By pressing the VSK 1.4 "Further data" more infor-
mation about a tool will be displayed. This function
is only available for tools which have additional in-
formation.
(See section 3.5 in this module)
By pressing the VSKs 1.5 "Unload" or "Load" the
actual selected tool wil be unloaded from or loaded
to the magazine.
(See section 3.10, p.22 in this module)
By pressing the VSK 1.6 "Delete tool" the selected
tool will be deleted from the tool list.
(See section 3.9, p.21 in this module)
By pressing the VSK 1.7 "Magazine selection" with
each press of the softkey you switch from the "NC
memory" window to the "Magazine" window and
from the "Magazine" window back to the "NC mem-
ory" window.
(See section 3.11, p.24 in this module)
By pressing the VSK 1.8 "Extend" on the operator
panel the extended vertical softkey bar 2 opens on
the right hand side of the screen.
By pressing the VSK 2.1 "Sort" you can sort the
tools in the tool list according to the following crite-
ria:
The suitable softkeys are offered in the vertical soft-
key bar.
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Magazine
Name
Type
T-Number
840D/828D SINUMERIK Operate