HEIDENHAIN ND 1100 User Manual

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Chapter 2

Operation

2-8

A variety of LCD screens are displayed during the course of normal
operation. These screens are nearly self-explanatory because they
use similar presentations of information and data.

Power

ower

ower-up screen

-up screen

The power-up screen is pre-
sented each time the system is
turned on. Pressing any key ad-
vances to the DRO screen.

DRO screen

DRO screen
The DRO screen shows the cur-
rent linear or angular positions
of axes, the current unit of mea-
sure (MM

MM or Inch

Inch

Inch) and the da-

tum point reference for mea-
surements (Abs

Abs

Abs for absolute, Inc

Inc

for incremental).

Pressing the MM/Inch softkey

MM/Inch softkey

toggles the unit of linear mea-
sure between metric and English. Pressing the Abs/Inc softkey

Abs/Inc softkey

toggles the datum between absolute and incremental.

When the Dia/Rad softkey

Dia/Rad softkey

Dia/Rad softkey function is activated for an axis in the

Setup menu, pressing it toggles the displayed value for that axis
between a radius (by halving a diameter) and a diameter (by dou-
bling a radius).

Softkeys are also provided for accessing the menu

menu functions and

presetting

presetting the axis datums to non-zero values.

LCD screens

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