ACU-RITE CNC 3500i - Manual (Page 16)

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Conversational Editing
6.1 Conversational Programming
Getting Started .................................................................................................... 102
Program Edit Screen............................................................................................ 103
Program Edit buttons ...................................................................................... 104
Conversational Data Input Cycles ........................................................................ 105
Milling Button ................................................................................................. 105
Milling Feature Buttons .................................................................................. 106
More Milling Button ........................................................................................ 107
Drill Features Button ....................................................................................... 108
Pocket Cycles Button ..................................................................................... 109
Other Cycles Button ....................................................................................... 110
Program Editing ................................................................................................... 111
Mark a program block: .................................................................................... 111
Unmark a block, or blocks:.............................................................................. 111
Deleting a program block: ............................................................................... 112
Inserting a program block: .............................................................................. 112
Copy/Paste Blocks in a program ..................................................................... 113
Moving Blocks in a program ........................................................................... 113
Canceling edits to a program block:................................................................ 113
Restore edits to a program block:................................................................... 114
Editing an existing block: ................................................................................ 114
Inserting program blocks using keypad hotkeys:............................................ 114
Program Text Editing ........................................................................................... 115
Find: Specific Text or Code in a program ........................................................ 115
Program Edit Preview .......................................................................................... 116
Preview Side Bar Menu .................................................................................. 116
Preview Features Menu ................................................................................. 117
Program / Display Relation................................................................................... 118
Programming: Canned Cycles, sub-programs
7.1 Explaining Basic Cycles
Round/Chamfer.................................................................................................... 120
Corner Rounding ............................................................................................. 120
Line-to-Line Corner Rounding ......................................................................... 120
Line-to-Arc Corner Rounding .......................................................................... 121
Arc-to-Arc Corner Rounding ............................................................................ 121
Chamfering ..................................................................................................... 121