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SINUMERIK 840D/840Di/810D Operation/Programming ShopMill (BAS) – 10.04 Edition 3-287
Mirror writing
If you want to engrave mirror writing, first program the mirroring (see
Section "Defining coordinate transformations" and then enter the text
in the "Engraving" function.
Full circle
If you want to distribute the characters evenly around a full circle,
enter the arc angle α2=360°. ShopMill then distributes the characters
evenly around the full circle.
Engraving
>
 Press the "Milling" and "Engraving" softkeys.
Lowercase letters
Lowercase
 Press the "Lowercase" softkey to enter lowercase letters.
Press it again to enter uppercase letters.
Special characters
Special
characters>
 Press the "Special characters" softkey if you need a character that
does not appear on the input keys.
The "Special characters" window appears.
 Place the cursor on the character you require.
 Press the "OK" softkey.
The selected character is inserted into the text at the cursor position.
Entering a date
Variable > Date
 Press the "Variable" and "Date" softkeys if you want to engrave
the current date.
The data is inserted in the European date format
(<DD>.<MM>.<YYYY>).
To obtain a different date format, you must adapt the format specified
in the text field. For example, to engrave the date in the American
date format (month/day/year => 8/16/04), change the format to
<M>/<D>/<YY> .