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Southwestern Industries, Inc.
TRAK
KMX Knee Mill, Bed Mill & ProtoTRAK
KMX CNC Retrofit Safety, Programming, Operating & Care Manual
7.2
Programming Strategy and Procedures
The ProtoTRAK KMX makes programming easy by allowing you to program the actual
part geometry as defined by the print. The basic strategy is to select the softkey event
type (geometry) and then follow all instructions in the conversation line. When an
event is selected, all the prompts will be shown on the right side of the information
area. The first prompt will be highlighted and also shown in the conversation line.
Input the dimension or data requested and press
INC SET or ABS SET. For X or Y or Z
dimension data it is very important to properly select INC SET or ABS SET. For all other
data either SET will do.
As data is being entered it will show in the conversation line. If you make a mistake,
for example, you press the wrong number key, you can clear the input by pressing
RESTORE. When
SET, the data will be transferred to the information area, and the next
prompt will be shown in the conversation line.
From the event data screen you may press the up arrow key to the upper right of the
LCD screen to go back to edit any data within an event.
Options within an event include:
PAGE FWD
: moves forward through the programmed events.
PAGE BACK
: moves backwards through the programmed events.
INSERT EVENT
: use this to insert a new event into the program. This new
event will take the place of the one that was on the right side of the screen when
you pressed the INSERT EVENT key. That previous event, and all the events
that follow, increase their event number by one. For example, if you started with
a program of four events, if you were to press the INSERT EVENT key while
Event 3 was on the right side of the screen, the previous Event 3 would become
Event 4 and the previous Event 4 would become Event 5. If you insert a Repeat
event, the event numbers will increase by one as when you insert another kind
of event.
DELETE EVENT
: this will delete the event on the right side of the screen.
When all data for an event has been entered, the entire event will be shifted to the left
side of the screen and the conversation line will ask you to select the next event.
