HEIDENHAIN TNC 128 (77184x-01) User Manual

Tnc 128

User’s Manual
HEIDENHAIN
Conversational
Programming

TNC 128

NC Software
771841-01
771844-01

English (en)
4/2013

Table of contents

Document Outline

Controls of the TNC
- Keys on visual display unit
- Machine operating modes
- Programming modes
- Program/file management, TNC functions
- Navigation keys
- Potentiometer for feed rate and spindle speed
- Cycles, subprograms and program section repeats
- Tool functions
- Special functions
- Coordinate axes and numbers: Entering and editing
About this manual
- Would you like any changes, or have you found any errors?
TNC model, software and features
- Software options
- Feature content level (upgrade functions)
- Intended place of operation
- The TNC complies with the limits for a Class A device in accordance with the specifications in EN 55022, and is intended for use primarily in industrially-zoned areas.
- Legal information
First steps with the TNC 128
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 Machine switch-on
  - Acknowledging the power interruption and moving to the reference points
- 1.3 Programming the first part
- 1.4 Graphically testing the first part
- 1.5 Tool setup
- 1.6 Workpiece setup
- 1.7 Running the first program
Introduction
- 2.1 The TNC 128
  - Programming: HEIDENHAIN conversational format
  - Compatibility
- 2.2 Visual display unit and keyboard
- 2.3 Operating modes
- 2.4 Status displays
  - "General" status display
  - Additional status displays
- 2.5 Window manager
  - Task bar
- 2.6 Accessories: HEIDENHAIN 3-D touch probes and electronic handwheels
  - 3-D touch probes
  - HR electronic handwheels
Programming: Fundamentals, file management
- 3.1 Fundamentals
- 3.2 Creating and writing programs
- 3.3 File management: Fundamentals
- 3.4 Working with the file manager
Programming: Programming aids
- 4.1 Screen keyboard
  - Entering text with the screen keyboard
- 4.2 Adding comments
- 4.3 Structuring programs
- 4.4 Integrated calculator
  - Operation
- 4.5 Programming graphics
- 4.6 Error messages
- 4.7 Context-sensitive help system
Programming: Tools
- 5.1 Entering tool-related data
  - Feed rate F
  - Spindle speed S
- 5.2 Tool data
- 5.3 Tool compensation
Programming: Tool movements
- 6.1 Fundamentals
- 6.2 Programming tool movements
  - Programming tool movements for workpiece machining
Programming: Subprograms and program section repeats
- 7.1 Labeling subprograms and program section repeats
  - Labels
- 7.2 Subprograms
- 7.3 Program section repeats
- 7.4 Separate program as subprogram
- 7.5 Nesting
- 7.6 Programming examples
Programming: Q parameters
- 8.1 Principle and overview
  - Programming notes
  - Calling Q-parameter functions
- 8.2 Part families—Q parameters in place of numerical values
  - Application
- 8.3 Describing contours through mathematical operations
- 8.4 Trigonometric functions
  - Definitions
  - Programming trigonometric functions
- 8.5 Circle calculations
  - Application
- 8.6 If-then decisions with Q parameters
- 8.7 Checking and changing Q parameters
  - Procedure
- 8.8 Additional functions
- 8.9 Accessing tables with SQL commands
- 8.10 Entering formulas directly
- 8.11 String parameters
- 8.12 Preassigned Q parameters
Programming: Miscellaneous functions
- 9.1 Entering miscellaneous functions M and STOP
  - Fundamentals
- 9.2 Miscellaneous functions for program run control, spindle and coolant
  - Overview
- 9.3 Miscellaneous functions for coordinate data
  - Programming machine-referenced coordinates: M91/M92
  - Reducing display of a rotary axis to a value less than 360°: M94
- 9.4 Miscellaneous functions for contouring behavior
Programming: Special functions
- 10.1 Overview of special functions
- 10.2 Freely definable tables
- 10.3 File functions
  - Application
  - Defining file functions
- 10.4 Defining coordinate transformations
- 10.5 Creating text files
Manual operation and setup
- 11.1 Switch-on, switch-off
  - Switch-on
  - Switch-off
- 11.2 Moving the machine axes
- 11.3 Spindle speed S, feed rate F and miscellaneous functions M
- 11.4 Datum setting without a 3-D touch probe
- 11.5 Using the 3-D touch probe
- 11.6 Calibrating a 3-D touch probe
- 11.7 Datum setting with a 3-D touch probe
Positioning with manual data input
- 12.1 Programming and executing simple machining operations
  - Positioning with manual data input (MDI)
  - Protecting and erasing programs in $MDI
Test run and program run
- 13.1 Graphics
- 13.2 Showing the workpiece blank in the working space
  - Application
- 13.3 Functions for program display
  - Overview
- 13.4 Test Run
  - Application
- 13.5 Program run
- 13.6 Optional block skip
- 13.7 Optional program-run interruption
  - Application
MOD functions
- 14.1 Selecting MOD functions
- 14.2 Software numbers
  - Application
- 14.3 Entering code numbers
  - Application
- 14.4 Setting the data interfaces
- 14.5 Ethernet interface
- 14.6 Position display types
  - Application
- 14.7 Unit of measurement
  - Application
- 14.8 Displaying operating times
  - Application
Fundamentals of cycles
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Available cycle groups
  - Overview of fixed cycles
- 15.3 Working with fixed cycles
- 15.4 PATTERN DEF pattern definition
- 15.5 POLAR PATTERN (Cycle 220)
- 15.6 CARTESIAN PATTERN (Cycle 221)
- 15.7 Point tables
Drilling, boring and thread cycles
- 16.1 Fundamentals
  - Overview
- 16.2 CENTERING (Cycle 240)
- 16.3 DRILLING (Cycle 200)
- 16.4 REAMING (Cycle 201)
- 16.5 BORING (Cycle 202)
- 16.6 UNIVERSAL DRILLING (Cycle 203)
- 16.7 BACK BORING (Cycle 204)
- 16.8 UNIVERSAL PECKING (Cycle 205)
- 16.9 SINGLE-LIP DEEP-HOLE DRILLING (Cycle 241)
- 16.10 Programming examples
- 16.11 TAPPING NEW with floating tap holder (Cycle 206)
- 16.12 RIGID TAPPING without a floating tap holder NEW (Cycle 207)
- 16.13 Programming example
Fixed cycles: Pocket milling / stud milling / slot milling
- 17.1 Fundamentals
  - Overview
- 17.2 RECTANGULAR POCKET (Cycle 251)
- 17.3 RECTANGULAR STUD (Cycle 256)
- 17.4 Programming examples
Cycles: Coordinate transformations
- 18.1 Fundamentals
  - Overview
  - Effect of coordinate transformations
- 18.2 DATUM SHIFT (Cycle 7, DIN/ISO: G54)
  - Effect
  - Cycle parameters
- 18.3 DATUM SHIFT with datum tables (Cycle 7)
- 18.4 DATUM SETTING (Cycle 247)
- 18.5 MIRROR IMAGE (Cycle 8)
- 18.6 SCALING FACTOR (Cycle 11)
  - Effect
  - Cycle parameters
- 18.7 AXIS-SPECIFIC SCALING (Cycle 26)
- 18.8 Programming examples
Cycles: Special functions
- 19.1 Fundamentals
  - Overview
- 19.2 DWELL TIME (Cycle 9)
  - Function
  - Cycle parameters
- 19.3 PROGRAM CALL (Cycle 12)
- 19.4 ORIENTED SPINDLE STOP (Cycle 13)
Touch probe cycles
- 20.1 General information about touch probe cycles
  - Method of function
  - Touch probe cycles in the Manual Operation and El. Handwheel modes
- 20.2 Before you start working with touch probe cycles
- 20.3 Touch probe table
- 20.4 Fundamentals of tool measurement
- 20.5 Calibrating the TT (Cycle 480)
- 20.6 Calibrating the wireless TT 449 (Cycle 484)
- 20.7 Measuring the tool length (Cycle 481)
- 20.8 Measuring the tool radius (Cycle 482)
- 20.9 Measuring the tool length and radius (Cycle 483)
Tables and overviews
- 21.1 Machine-specific user parameters
  - Application
- 21.2 Pin layouts and connecting cables for the data interfaces
- 21.3 Technical information
- Overview tables
  - Fixed cycles
  - Miscellaneous functions