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Southwestern Industries, Inc.
TRAK
KMX Knee Mill, Bed Mill & ProtoTRAK
KMX CNC Retrofit Safety, Programming, Operating & Care Manual
connecting radius. If no radius is desired, or if you are programming the last
event, enter 0 by pressing the INC SET or ABS SET key without a number value.
2. The corner radius in a rectangular pocket or PROFILE. The radius is
tangential.
Continue
- to tell the ProtoTRAK KMX if the event is continuous to the next
event(s) to be programmed. This saves inputs needed to define a profile. If the
event is programmed with a Yes, for continue, then X begin, Y begin, Tool
Offset, Feedrate and Tool # will not be prompted in the next one.
Direction
- for an arc or circle, the direction is clockwise or counterclockwise.
Feedrate
- the milling feedrate in in/min from .1 to 99.9 or in mm/min from 5 to
2500.
Fin cut
- for a pocket or profile, the width of the finish cut. If 0 is input, there will be no
finish cut.
Radius
- the radius of the bolt hole pattern, arc or circle.
Tool #
- the number you assign to identify the tool.
Tool Diameter
- the diameter of the tool. See the note on finish cuts later in this
section.
Tool offset
- the selection of the tool offset, right, left or center relative to the
programmed edge and tool movement.
X
or
Y
- the X or Y dimension, may be defined in absolute or incremental
reference.
X Begin
or
Y Begin
- the X or Y beginning point of the line or arc.
X Center
or
Y Center
- the X or Y dimension of the center of the bolt hole pattern, arc or
circle.
X End
or
Y End
- the X or Y ending point of the line or arc.
X1
,
Y1
, and
X3
,
Y3
- the X and Y dimensions for the opposite corners on a
rectangular pocket, profile or face mill.
Prompts unique to the Subroutine and Copy events:
Cutting Order
–
select to cut from begin to end or end to begin on mirrored
events.
First Event #
- the first event to be repeated.
Last Event # -
the last event to be repeated. If only one event is to be
repeated, the First and Last events will be the same number.
Mirror Axis
–
selection of axis to be mirrored across.
X Offset
- the incremental X offset from the event to be repeated.
