Allowed engraving characters, Characters that cannot be printed – HEIDENHAIN TNC 640 (34059x-05) Cycle programming User Manual
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Cycles: Special Functions
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ENGRAVING (Cycle 225, DIN/ISO: G225)
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Allowed engraving characters
The following special characters are allowed in addition to
lowercase letters, uppercase letters and numbers:
! # $ % & ‘ ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ \ ] _ ß CE
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.
When engraving German umlauts, ß, ø, @ or the CE character,
enter the character % before the character to be engraved:
Algebraic sign
Input
ä
%ae
ö
%oe
ü
%ue
Ä
%AE
Ö
%OE
Ü
%UE
ß
%ss
ø
%D
@
%at
CE
%CE
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:
Character
Input
Line break
\n
Horizontal tab
(the tab width is permanently set to 8
characters)
\t
Vertical tab
(the tab width is permanently set to one
line)
\v