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Engraving system variables – HEIDENHAIN iTNC 530 (60642x-04) Cycle programming User Manual

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Cycles: Special Functions

12.6 ENGRA

V

ING (Cy

c

le 225, DIN/ISO:

G225)

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. 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
parameter" section).

Keep in mind that you must enter a leading 0 when
entering the date formats 1 to 9, e.g. time08.