When a Cycles button is touched, the available cycles in that category are listed.

Touch the name of the cycle that is to be executed by the machine to display the manual data input form.

A full description of the above listed Cycles, and programming applications are provided in this manual. Refer to chapter 7 "Canned Cycles" on page 147.

Pocket Cycle Example

From the bottom menu bar touch the Pocket Cycles button.

Touch Rectangular in the sub menu.

The touch screen displays a graphic of a rectangular milling cycle, and the highlight bar is positioned in the first field on the form that is requiring data input.

The numeric pad is also displayed so that data can be entered into the required fields that are shown. The Use button can be executed once all fields have been entered, or the operation can be canceled at any time by touching the Cancel button.

Enter the data in each field for the pocket size and depth. Use the Enter button on the numeric key pad to use the data entered in a field, and move to the next field.

When the data has been entered, touch the Enter button on the numeric pad.

The highlight bar will go to the next required field input, and the graphic view changes to display graphically the next required data input.

When the data has been entered, touch the Enter button again on the numeric pad, or touch the More button to insert additional data.

3.1 Manual Data Input (MDI)

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