Haas Automation VF Series, Control Book

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January 2004
DISPLAYS
The display keys are in the center of the keypad at the top. These eight keys provide access to all the different
displays and operational information available to the user. Some of these keys are multi-action keys in that
they will display different screens when pressed multiple times. The current display name that your in is
displayed on the upper left corner of the video screen. You can select any of the displays using these eight
DISPLAY keys:
The following is a short descriptions of the control panel keys’ usage. A more in-depth description of each
display will be in the following pages.
PRGRM / CONVRS (P.10) Pressing this key will show the active program in either EDIT, MEM or MDI. If
you’re in Edit mode, pressing this key again will display the four different editors
that are available to edit your program with (Advanced editor, Basic editor, Menu
Quick Code and Visual Quick Code).
POSIT (P.12) Pressing this key will show all four axes position registers together in one display
page. After pressing the POSIT key, paging or arrow up or down will show each of
the four position coordinates in separate large caracter displays.
OFSET (P.13) Pressing this key will show the Offset Display and is used to enter, set, measure,
and adjust tool length offsets, tool radius or diameter offsets, tool wear offsets,
coolant positions, and work offsets. Pressing OFSET again, or the PAGE UP key,
will show the values in the work offsets for the X , Y , Z axes, along with any A and
B axes. Pressing OFSET again, or PAGE UP will toggle you back and forth
between the work offsets and tool offsets. If the ORIGIN button is pressed while
the offsets are displayed, the control will prompt the user, ZERO ALL (Y/N)?
Entering a Y will zero all the tool offsets and coolant positions. You can do the
same thing for all the work offsets by pressing ORIGIN.
CURNT COMDS (P.16) The COMMANDS Display is used to show Current Command values of the running
program, with positions and active commands along with spindle and tool loads.
Succeeding presses of PAGE DOWN will display pages for the Current Display
Commands, Timers, Macro Variables, Maintenance, Tool Life, and Tool Load.
Pressing the ORIGIN button on the registers in the Timers, Maintenance, Tool Life
and Tool Load pages will clear those registers.
HELP (P.18) The first press of the HELP/CALC key shows Haas text Help information. The
HELP Display shows a brief, on-line help data manual. Pressing the letter D will
show a directory of all the available help information topics listed with a letter next
to it. Each of the alphabet letter button will select one of the different topics within
the HELP display.