ACU-RITE MILLPWRG2 - Manual (Page 186)

168 8 Milling and Drilling
8.2 A
d
ditional Milling F
unctions
Repeat, Rotate, ...
The Repeat, Rotate, ... soft key provides milling functions available
with the MILLPWR
G2
product.
Repeat
Using this step you can repeat sections of programs with any
combination of X, Y or Z offsets.
To program a repeat:
 From the PGM screen, press the Program Steps soft key.
 Press the Repeat, Rotate, ... soft key.
 Enter the number of the FIRST step and the LAST step in the STEP
RANGE that you want to repeat.
 Enter the OFFSET for the X, Y and/or Z axis. The offset is the
distance between repeats.
 Enter the number of times you want to REPEAT the original steps.
 Press the USE key.
Rotate
With ROTATE, you can rotate sections of programs.
 The steps rotated must precede the ROTATE step.
To program a ROTATE:
 From the PGM screen, press the Program Steps soft key.
 Press the Repeat, Rotate, ... soft key.
 Enter the first and last steps in the STEP RANGE that you would like
to rotate.
 Enter the X and Y axes coordinates for the CENTER point of rotation.
 Enter the Z offset.
 Enter the angle for each rotation in the ANGLE field.
 Enter the number of times required to rotate the original steps.
 Press the USE key.
The steps being repeated must precede the REPEAT step.
The number of repeats must be 1 or more.