Capturing the actual value of the current position

Question:

We need to score the surface of many workpieces before milling them.

Can the positions traversed to be captured and entered in a program?

Answer:

 You can use the “actual-position capture” function for this application.

The following settings must be made on the control:

> Manual Operation mode

> Press the MOD key

> In AXIS SELECTION use bit encoding to define the axes to be used. The selection starts from the right, meaning that to select X,Y and Z, for example, you need to enter %00111.

> Press END to close the dialog box.

You can now use the “actual-position capture” key to enter the current position into an NC block in your program.