Allowed engraving characters, Characters that cannot be printed, Engraving system variables – HEIDENHAIN 530 (340 49x-07) Cycle programming User Manual
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HEIDENHAIN iTNC 530
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12.6 ENGRA
V
ING (Cy
c
le 225, DIN/ISO: G225)
Allowed engraving characters
The following special characters are allowed in addition to lowercase 
letters, uppercase letters and numbers:
! # $ % & ‘ ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ \ ] _
Characters that cannot be printed
Apart from text, you can also define certain non-printable characters 
for formatting purposes. Enter the special character \ before the non-
printable characters.
The following formatting possibilities are available:
\n
: Line break
\t
: Horizontal tab (the tab width is permanently set to 8 characters)
\t
: Vertical tab (the tab width is permanently set to one line)
Engraving system variables
In addition to the standard characters, you can engrave the contents 
of certain system variables. Enter the special character % before the 
system variable.
You can also engrave the current date. To do this, enter %time
defines the date format whose meaning is identical to the function 
SYSSTR ID332
(see the User's Manual for Conversational
Programming, "Q parameter programming" chapter, "Copying system 
data to a string" section).
The TNC uses the special characters % and \ for special 
functions. These characters must be indicated twice in the 
text to be engraved (e.g. %%) if you want to engrave them.
Keep in mind that you must enter a leading 0 when 
entering the date formats 1 to 9, e.g. time08.
