Haas Automation EC Series, Control Book

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January 2004
Z AXIS WINDOW
A long window on the right most part of the screen shows the location of the Z axis and indicates
spindle movement. A horizontal line in the top part of this window represents the tool change position.
Z AXIS PART ZERO LINE
This feature consists of a horizontal line displayed on the Z axis bar at the top-right corner of the graphics
screen to indicate the position of the current Z axis work offset plus the length of the current tool. While a
program is running, the shaded portion of the bar indicates the depth of Z axis motion. The user will now
be able to watch the position of the tool tip relative to the Z axis part zero position as the program runs.
CONTROL STATUS
The lower left portion of the screen displays control status. It is the same as the last four lines of all
other displays.
POSITION WINDOW
The location of all enabled axes can be viewed in this window. By default it is OFF. This window can
be opened by pressing the F3 key. Additional presses of the F3 key or the up and down arrows will display
the various position formats that the control keeps track of. This window also displays the current scale of
the tool path window and the current simulated tool number. The value represented by the vertical
dimension of the tool path window is labeled Y-SIZE. At power-on, this will be the full Y-axis table travel.
When you zoom into a table area, this value will become smaller, indicating that you are viewing a smaller
portion of the table.
To exit the Graphic mode, select any other display or mode. When you exit Graphics, the graphics image is
lost and must be built again by running the program.