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Allowed engraving characters, Characters that cannot be printed, Engraving system variables – HEIDENHAIN TNC 620 (34056x-04) Cycle programming User Manual

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Cycles: Special Functions

12.6 ENGRAVING (Cycle 225, DIN/ISO: G225)

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TNC 620 | User's Manual Cycle Programming | 5/2013

Allowed engraving characters

The following special characters are allowed in addition to
lowercase letters, uppercase letters and numbers:
! # $ % & ‘ ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ \ ] _

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.

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. 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).

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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