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the next window, if it windows to the end of the program, the cursor moves to the last row
and 1st
column of the program;
2. Finding: To search for the specified character upward or downward from the
cursor
current location
The steps of finding is as follows:
1) Press to enter Edit mode, and press key to enter the PRG CONTENT window;
2) Press , and input the required characters to be searched(can input one block). For
example, finding “G00” page is shown below:
4) Press key ( or is determined by the location of the character searched to
the character where the cursor locates), it displays as follows:
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4) After the finding, the CNC system is still in FIND state, press or key again, the
next character can be found. Or press key to exit the FIND state.
5) If the character is not found, the prompt of “Search fail” will be displayed.
Note : During the searching, it doesn’t search the characters in the called subprogram, and the
character in
subprogram is searched in subprogram.
3. Positioning the cursor to the specified line
1) Press to enter Edit mode, and press to enter the PRG CONTENT page.
2) Press , and input the line number (the line number of block is the left of one row label).
For example, the cursor positions to the 10th line, the display is shown below:
3) Press (or ),and the display page is shown below:
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4. The method to return to the program head
1) In Program interface of the Edit mode, press key, the cursor returns to the program
head;
2) Search the program head character by the methods in OPERATION, Section 6.1.3.
6.1.4 Inserting a character
Steps:
1) Press to enter PRG CONTENT page in Edit mode;
2) Press key to enter the INS mode (the cursor is an underline), the window is as follows:
3) Input the character to be inserted (to insert G98 code before G50 in the above figure,
input , , ); it displays as follows:
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Note 1: In the Insert mode, if the cursor is not located at the row head, a space will be