Programming and Operating Manual (Milling)
306 6FC5398-4DP10-0BA6, 09/2017
Free contour programming
Fu n ctionality
Free contour programming enables you to create simple and complex contours.
A contour editor (FKE) calculates any missing parameters for you as soon as they can be obtained from other parameters.
You can link together contour elements and transfer to the edited part program.
Proceed through the following steps to open the contour editor window:
Select the program management operating area.
Press this softkey to enter the system directory for storing pa
rt programs.
Select the desired program file, and
press this key to open it in the program editor.
Press this softkey to open the contour editor window.
Initially, you define a contour starting point (see Section "
Defining a start point (Page 307)").
The contour is then programmed step by step (see Section "
Programming example for mill-
(Page 316)").
When the program edited in the contour editor is opened
in the program editor, if you position the
editor cursor in a command line of the contour program and then press this softkey, the main
screen of the contour editor opens and you can recompile the existing contour.
recompiling, only the contour elements that were generated in the contour editor are created again. Any changes you
made directly in the program text are lost; however, you can subsequently insert and edit user
-defined texts, which will not
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