Rockwell Automation 8520 9/Series CNC Lathe User Manual

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Editing Programs On Line

Chapter 5

5-13

Erasing An Entire Block

Move the cursor from the edit menu until it is located on any

character in the block that you want to delete.

Press the

{BLOCK DELETE}

softkey. This erases the selected block,

including the end of block character.

DIGITZ

MODIFY

INSERT

BLOCK

DELETE

BLOCK

TRUNC

DELETE

CH/WRD

EXIT

EDITOR

STRING

RENUM

PRGRAM

MERGE

PRGRAM

QUICK

VIEW

CHAR/

WORD

(softkey level 3)

Example 5.8

Erasing An Entire Block

Program Block

(Program Display Area)

Enter

(Input Area)

Notes

X93M01Z10;

Position the cursor any where in the block

X93M01Z10;

Press the {BLOCK DELETE} softkey.
Result ---- the block will be completely deleted

Important: If the block consists of more than one line on the CRT the

entire block is deleted, not just the line that contains the cursor.

Erasing a character still in the input area

You can erase characters in the input area (lines 1-2 on the screen) before

you send them to the program display area. Delete the character to the left

of the cursor on the input line by pressing the

[DEL]

key. A new character

will be inserted to the left of the cursor automatically when you press any

character key. You can move the cursor on the input line by holding down

the

[SHIFT]

key and pressing the left or right cursor keys.