NCT Group NCT 2000T, NCT 100T, NCT 990T manual Automatic Operation Start after Block Search

13.6Automatic Operation Start after Block Search

13.6 Automatic Operation Start after Block Search

In the course of machining there may be a need for executing the program selected for auto- matic mode not from the first block, but from a block within the program. For this, the appropriate block of the program has to be pointed at.

On the DIRECTORY screen the program must be selected for automatic execution, than VIEW screen needs to be displayed. The control is to be switched over to automatic mode

. In case of INTD state is displayed on status bar, it needs to be broken by the use of

RESET key.

If F4 BLOCK SEARCH action is selected after pressing action

menu key the listing is

taken over by the program mod- ule preprocessor. The action block search can be activated on the following conditions:

–automatic mode is on,

–there may be no INTD state, i.e. the program execu- tion must not be in inter- rupted state,

–VIEW screen should be dis- played for viewing the program selected for au- tomatic execution.

If one of the above conditions is not fulfilled, the contradicting state is shown by symbol 67 in the 7th field of status bar.

13.6.1 Pointing at the Desired Block. Entering the Repetition Count.

The highlighting bar displays the block pointed at. By means of the keys

,

,

<PgUp> , <PgDn> the program can be browsed (as the bar is moved). With the

help of softkeys F1 FIRST and F2 LAST it goes to the beginning as well as the end of program on general displaying area.

If character <N> is pressed on the keyboard, a block number can be entered in the bottom data

input line at address N, than after terminating the input (by the use of key or

the

highlighting bar goes to the block searched for. In case it cannot find the block with the entered number it writes symbol ? (question mark) on the last character of address N.

In case of command M98 Ppppp the listing of subprogram No. pppp is started by the use of

key . In case of command M99 it returns to sub- or main program one level higher by

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