Rockwell Automation 8520 9/Series CNC Lathe - Manual (Page 112)

Editing Programs On Line
Chapter 5
5-6
This section describes moving the cursor in the program display area (lines
7-20 of the CRT). It assumes that you have selected a program to edit as
outlined on page 5-2 .
Important: The input cursor is the cursor shown on the input lines (lines 2
and 3 on the screen). Refer to page 2-37 for details.
To move the block cursor: Press these keys on the operator panel:
right and left right and left cursor keys
up and down up and down cursor keys
up or down one full screen display up or down cursor keys while holding down the [SHIFT]
key
To search for a character or character string, press the continue { Þ }
softkey to change the softkey functions and follow these steps:
1. Press the
{STRING SEARCH}
softkey.
DIGITZ
E
MODIFY
INSERT
BLOCK
DELETE
BLOCK
TRUNC
DELETE
CH/WRD
EXIT
EDITOR
STRING
SEARCH
RENUM
PRGRAM
MERGE
PRGRAM
QUICK
VIEW
CHAR/
WORD
(softkey level 3)
2. Move the cursor to the beginning or end of the file. Press either the:
To move the cursor to the: Press:
beginning of the part program {TOP OF PROG}
end of the part program {BOT OF PROG}
3. Key in the character or character string you want to search for, and:
To move the cursor to search: Press:
forward {FORWARD}
in reverse {REVRSE}
If the control cannot find the character or character string, it places
the cursor at the end or beginning of the program being searched,
depending on the direction of the search.
5.2.1
Moving the Cursor
{STRING SEARCH}