Productivity Inc – Haas CNC TL Series Lathe Operator Manual Page 17
HELP/CALC – Will bring up a help POP UP relevant to the screen you are in. This provides information
only pertaining to that screen. Pressing the HELP/CALC button again brings up a tabbed menu. With
tabulated screens highlighting tab and pressing WRITE/ENTER key will open up respective tab. Pressing
the CANCEL key will close the tab.
Help Opening up the Help tab brings you to the table of contents of the entire Mill Operators
Manual. High light the topic of interest and press WRITE/ENTER will bring up subtopics
on the area of interest. Select subtopic in similar fashion will bring up the relevant page
in the manual.
Search The search tab will do a search of the manuals content for relevant information on a
keyword. Type in the search term and press F1. Topics relevant to the keyword will
appear. Highlight the topic and press WRITE/ENTER key to open.
Drill Table Displays a common drill sizes, decimal information and tap drill sizes.
Calculator Different calculator functions are available under this tab. The calculator gives ordinary
calculations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in all tabs. It also will
solve trig problems with information about triangles, circles, circle line tangent and circle-
circle tangent. A milling and tapping tab will give you suggested cutting speeds and feeds
per different materials and sized tools.
Simple
Calculator It will calculate simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division operations.
Operations
are listed as: LOAD + - * /. These are selected using the left or right cursor arrow.
· To enter a number cursor on to LOAD; type the number you want to load and
press WRITE/ENTER.
· To perform one of the arithmetic functions, enter the first number into the
calculator window. Select the operation you want ( + - * / ). Finally, enter the
second number into the input buffer, press WRITE/ENTER to perform the
calculation.
Milling and
Tapping Help you solve values for feed rates SFM, RPM, and chip load under different
conditions. It uses the three equations related to milling and tapping. The first
one includes cutter diameter with SFM and RPM. The second one includes RPM,
number of flutes, feed rate and chip load. The third one includes thread pitch,
RPM and feed rate.
The Milling & Tapping Tab