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Allowed engraving characters, Characters that cannot be printed, Engraving system variables – HEIDENHAIN iTNC 530 (34049x-08) Cycle programming User Manual

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12.6 ENGRA

V

ING (Cy

cle 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.

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