Siemens SINUMERIK 840D Operation/Programming Manual page 287

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Mirror writing
Full circle
Engraving
Lowercase letters
Lowercase
Special characters
Special
characters>
Entering a date
Variable >
Date
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SINUMERIK 840D/840Di/810D Operation/Programming ShopMill (BAS) – 10.04 Edition
If you want to engrave mirror writing, first program the mirroring (see
Section "Defining coordinate transformations" and then enter the text
in the "Engraving" function.
If you want to distribute the characters evenly around a full circle,
enter the arc angle α2=360°. ShopMill then distributes the characters
evenly around the full circle.
Press the "Milling" and "Engraving" softkeys.
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Press the "Lowercase" softkey to enter lowercase letters.
Press it again to enter uppercase letters.
Press the "Special characters" softkey if you need a character that
does not appear on the input keys.
The "Special characters" window appears.
Place the cursor on the character you require.
Press the "OK" softkey.
The selected character is inserted into the text at the cursor position.
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> .
Programming with ShopMill
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