ACU-RITE 300S READOUTS - Manual (Page 60)

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I - 3 Milling Specific Oper
ations
Incline, and Arc Milling Table Entry
The following soft keys are available while in the entry form.
The Incline Milling form is used to specify the flat surface to be milled.
The data is entered through the “Incline Mill Table”. Selecting an
incline mill entry, and then pressing the NEW, or EDIT soft key, (or
ENTER), will allow the feature to be defined. The following listed
fields require data input.
„ Plane: Select the plane by pressing the PLANE soft key. The
current selection is shown on the soft key and in the plane field. The
graphic in the message box aids in selecting the correct plane.
„ Start Point: Enter the coordinates of the start point, or press
TEACH to set the coordinate to the current position.
„ End Point: Enter the coordinates of the end point, or press teach
to set the coordinate to current position.
„ Step: Enter the step size. When milling, this is the distance
between each pass or each step along the line.
Press the ENTER key to close the form and save the feature to the
table. Press the RUN soft key to execute the surface milling
operation. Press C hard key to exit the form without saving the
feature.
Function Soft key
Press to select a plane ([XY], [YZ], or [XZ]
Press to execute the milling operation
Press to use the current absolute position
Press to open the Calculator for standard math, and
trigonometry functions.
The Step size is optional. If the value is zero, the operator
decides at run-time how far to move between each step.
The table, and its entries are saved to memory. They will
stay in memory until deleted, or changed, and are not
affected by a power cycle.