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Southwestern Industries, Inc.
TRAK
KMX Knee Mill, Bed Mill & ProtoTRAK
KMX CNC Retrofit Safety, Programming, Operating & Care Manual
6.5
Teach
Teach gives you the ability to enter X and Y dimensions into a program. It can be a
useful way of entering a few manual moves for operations like clearing out excess
material or remembering a few hole locations.
The process of using Teach is in two parts. The first part takes place in the DRO Mode.
This is where you start the Teach program, establish the program events and enter the
X and Y dimensions. The second part is in the Program Mode. This is where you
complete the Teach events that you began in the DRO Mode by entering the rest of the
data. Once the data is entered, the Teach events become just like the other events
that make up a program.
6.5.1
Entering Teach Data
From the DRO screen, press Teach.
On the top of the screen, you will see the message "Teach" and an event
counter. When you enter Teach, you are actually programming events. If there
is already a program in current memory, Teaching will add events to the end of
the program. If there is not already a program in current memory, Teaching will
start a new program. For example, if you already had a program in current
memory that had 10 events, when you press Teach, the event counter will say
EVENT 11. If there is no program, the event counter will say EVENT 1.
The event counter shows the event for which data is being entered. You may
teach in position, drill, and mill events only.
On the first Teach screen, the softkeys are:
POSN DRILL
: a position / drill event.
MILL BEGIN
: the beginning of a straight line or MILL event.
END TEACH
: ends the teaching process and returns you to the main DRO
screen.
If you press the POSN DRILL key, the event counter will go up by one and the
screen remains the same. If you press the MILL BEGIN key, the event counter
stays on the same number. That is because you have given the beginning point
of the line but not yet the end. The softkey selections will change to:
MILL END
: the last point of the Mill event. Press this to end the Mill event and
select a POSN DRILL or new MILL event.
MILL CONT
: the last point of the current Mill event, but the beginning of the
next Mill event. You may enter successive Mill events by pressing the MILL
CONT key.
Pressing either of the above softkeys will cause the event counter to increase by
one.
