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User functions
Default
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Programming aids
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Calculator
Complete list of all current error messages
Context-sensitive help function for error messages
TNCguide: The integrated help system. User information available directly on the TNC 640
Graphic support for programming cycles
Comment and structure blocks in the NC program
Teach-In
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Actual positions can be transferred directly into the NC program
Program verification
graphics
Display modes
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Graphic simulation before milling operations, even while another program is running
Plan view / projection in 3 planes / 3-D view, also in tilted working plane/3-D pencil-trace graphics
Magnification of details
Programming graphics
• In the Programming and Editing mode, the contour of the NC blocks is drawn on screen while the
blocks are being entered (2-D pencil-trace graphics), even while another program is running
Program-run graphics
Display modes
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Real-time graphic simulation during execution of the milling program
Plan view / projection in 3 planes / 3-D view
Machining time
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Calculation of machining time in the Test Run operating mode
Display of the current machining time in the Program Run operating modes
Returning to the contour
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Mid-program startup in any block in the program, returning the tool to the calculated nominal
position to continue machining
Program interruption, contour departure and return
Datum management
• One table for storing any datums
Datum tables
• Several datum tables for storing workpiece-related datums
Pallet tables
• Pallet tables (with as many entries as desired for the selection of pallets, NC programs and
datums) can be machined workpiece by workpiece
Touch probe cycles
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Calibrating the touch probe
Compensation of workpiece misalignment, manual or automatic
Datum setting, manual or automatic
Automatic tool and workpiece measurement
Automatic measurement and optimization of machine kinematics
Parallel secondary axes
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Compensating movement in the secondary axes U, V, W through the principal axes X, Y, Z
Including movements of parallel axes in the position display of the associated principal axis (sum
display)
Defining the principal and secondary axes in the NC program makes it possible to run programs
on different machine configurations
Conversational languages
• English, German, Chinese (traditional, simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French,
Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian (Cyrillic),
Spanish, Swedish, Slovenian, Slovak, Turkish