Description:

Up to 66 characters immediately following PARTNO / are punched in legible format on the output tape (readable letters and numbers formed by punched holes). The character string is printed in the heading of each page of the postprocessor output, and can also be used for Program ID. This statement must appear before any instruction requiring punched output.

Parameter Definitions:

The man readable character string can consist of spaces, letters A-Z, digits 0-9, and special characters . , / + -. Any other characters recognizable by the postprocessor will be printed on the listing, but will not be punched on the tape leader.

Considerations:

1. NX requires a major word terminator (/) after INSERT, PARTNO and PPRINT COMMANDS. The interpretation of this character is dependent on its position in the character string.

2. The MDF (Machine Data File) defines whether or not the PARTNO command is to generate a man-readable header on tape. Man-readable header is output in a vertical format consisting of valid ISO or EIA codes.

3. For controls that allow a Program ID on tape, the leftmost "n" characters of the PARTNO character string will be used as the Program ID. "n" varies from control to control. Format and validity of the Program ID is defined by MDF.

4. If PARTNO is not given, no character string is printed on the listing device or punched on the output tape, and no Program ID is generated.

5. Trailing blanks in the input character string are suppressed for output.

6. The character string in the INSERT, PARTNO, and PPRINT commands are literal strings. They are not checked to resolve any variables in a macro.

Description:

This command defines the distance from the pivot point to spindle gage line along the Z axis. The command is meaningful only for tilting head rotary axis.

Parameter Definitions:

"Z" is the pivot point distance.

Considerations:

Z should be entered as a positive number.

Description:

For wire EDM, this command turns the machine and cut power on or off.

Parameter Definitions:

1. "ON" or "N"Specifies power on.

2. "OFF" or "O"Specifies power off.

Description:

This command is used to print remarks on the postprocessor verification listing device. The 66 characters immediately following PPRINT (or the "/" symbol, if used as a major word terminator) are printed as remarks on the listing device.

You can output remarks to the listing device and to the punch file if you set the Control In and Control Out characters as Valid in the MDFG INSERT command . Then the character string between the parentheses in the PPRINT command in the CLSF, is output to both the listing device and to the punch file.

If, under the postprocessor command INSERT in the MDFG, control in and control out characters are set as Valid, the characters between the parentheses in the PPRINT command in the CLSF are output to the listing device and to the punch file.

Parameter Definitions:

The input character string can consist of any printable characters.

Considerations:

1. NX requires a major word terminator (/) after INSERT, PARTNO and PPRINT commands. The interpretation of this character is dependent on its position in the character string.

2. The character string in the INSERT, PARTNO, and PPRINT commands are literal strings. They are not checked to resolve any variables in a macro.

Description:

PREFUN provides a convenient means of programming preparatory functions (G codes) which cannot be output by other postprocessor commands.

Parameter Definitions:

"n" can be any number from 0 to 99. The preparatory function code "n" will be output immediately in a separate block.

Considerations:

1. The validity of the preparatory function code is not checked by the postprocessor.

2. Conditions in the postprocessor are not changed by the PREFUN command. The postprocessor will retain the previous conditions after PREFUN even though PREFUN can have changed the machine status.

3. It is not recommended to use PREFUN to output functions that other commands have been assigned to output.